Sad start to trip
PA Potchetstroom (South Africa) The ali-expenses-paid trip to South Africa for a Lower 'Tutt transport operator, Mr I Alan Murrell, has started on la sad note. Mr Murrell, who broke a ; trade union ban to transport ! the South African shiuJu i earn around Lower Hutt dur- • ing the world softball champi lonships earlier this year. I arrived in South Africa in (time for the first rugby test i in Durban on Saturday. But a telephone call from [New Zealand soon after his [arrival in Potchefstrom on [Tuesday afternoon informed ! mm of the death, in England, [of his father-in-law. Mr Murrell, though dis- | tressed at the news, has deIcided to continue his tour, I which is being made at the I invitation of the South African Softball Federation, supported by the Committee for Fairness in Sport.
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