Yachting challenge threatened
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Lack of money may force the defending champion, Britain. to pull out of this year’s Southern Cross yachting series in Australia at Christmas.
Mr Arthur Slater, who led the victorious British team in 1973, told N.Z.P.A. yesterday: "We have no sponsors and our money-raising efforts have been futile, if we can't get aponsors or owners with the money to back this year’s challenge, there is little chance that a British team will go.” British hopes of retaining the title struck bottom when a team of sponsors, including airline and shipping companies, announced that they were no longer interested in the Southern Cross series. “We will look nice fools if we don’t turn up in Australia with a team to defend the title,” Mr Slater said. Two of the winning British Admiral’s Cup yachts, Battlecry and Noryema, would go to Australia if the money was raised.
But the new Morning Cloud, owned by the former Prime Minister. Mr Ted Heath, would not go.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33933, 28 August 1975, Page 26
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