Labour leader wins race
1 NZPA Hobart | The Federal President of I the Australian Labour Party, ■|Neil Batt, sailing his 16m : ketch, Sandra. yesterday ' j won the Melbourne-to- ! Hobart yacht race. ■ Surrounded bv a flotilla of ! spectator craft Sandra ! i crossed the finishing line oni .(the Derwent River just be-| : ifere noon yesterday. Sand-| ra's time of two days 12 •j hours 21 minutes 51 sec-; .onds, cut 5 hours off the I record set by Helsa! in 1976. j Hockey.—A West German team has plaved for over 26 hours to beat the world indoor endur- . ance record held by a British school side. The men’s second division club V.F.L. Wolfsburg i passed the mark set by the Chall- : ney school in Luton, England, 1 I and planned to go on for a total ‘of 40 hours.
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