Maori netball
Nelson reporter Seventy teams are competing in this year’s South Island Maori netball tournament at Nelson. Two finals were decided yesterday. In the midget grade, Hono Mai (Marlborough) won all its six matches, and Nga Awatoru (Invercargill) was runner-up. In the final of the junior grade, Arahanui (Christchurch) won all seven matches in its section and beat the winner of the B section, Huirapa (Arawhenua), in the final.
The senior B section was won by Arahanui, winning nine of its 10 games and drawing one. The tournament will conclude tomorrow.
Motor • racing. — American motor-racing superstar. A. J. Foyt, has cancelled plans to drive at the Bathurst 1000 on October 2 on medical advice. He was to have driven for the Holden team. Yachting.—Nine young men and women—one from each nation:
In the European Common Market—will sail a yacht represent-1 mg the whole community in the; second Whitbread round-the- . world race starting on Sunday. l The boat is appropriately called j Traite de Rome. ,
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