Yachting FINN GOLD CUP
Roberts Leads Fleet (N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) MEDEMBLIK (Holland), August 17 R. H. Roberts, of Auckland, today sensationally hit the front tn the over-all classification for the International Finn class world championship. He finished seventh in the fourth race today, a performance which took him from seventh to first in the fleet list Roberts represented New Zealand at the 1960 Olympic Games on the Bay of Naples and finished sixth in the fleet. After the fourth race In the present Gold Cup series results are Roberts, 5434 points. 1; Mankin (Russia). 5243. 2: P Werenskiold (Norway), 5190, 3: H. Fogh (Denmark), 5069, 4; B Jacobson (Sweden), 4900, 5; A Nelis (Belgium), 4869, 6. Fogh is the present world champion in the Olympic Flying Dutchman class; and Nells is defending the Finn Gold Cup Fogh won today's race from Nelis. Australians and New Zealanders finished well back in the bunch in today's race. H. Ravdasehl, of Australia, was tenth D. J. Newell, of Auckland, was thirty-seventh; Australia's C. Ryrie, sixty-ninth: and P. H Letcher, of Auckland, eightyfourth D. R. Nixon, of Christchurch, was one hundred and seventeenth.
The voracious lamprey, an eel-like pseudo-fish which all but wiped out fishing on the Great Lakes after the war, is believed to be spreading in British Columbian waters.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30213, 19 August 1963, Page 17
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