BOWLING

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 148, 25 June 1934, Page 11

BOWLING

NEW ZEALAND COUNCIL

The- ballot taken recently for the election of members of the ■ New ' Zealand Bowling Council resulted in the return of the following:—Messrs: E. Dingle (Taranaki),G. S. Gordon (Wanganui), J. Pascoe (Auckland), F. A. Hosking (Aucklund1 und)' £v^f.a5 "° (Hawke's'Bay), J. Ker#aw.; (Wellington), and :S. M; Stone (Wellington). As past president, Mr. H. Kowley (Dunedin) remains a of the council. .. . . .

The annual meeting of the New Zealand Jiowhng Association will be held at Auckland on Wednesday, July 11. Some important matters ' are "to come before the meeting. One proposal to be discussed- will be that made"at vthel halfyearly meeting in January by Mr, H B Oakey, of Chvistchureh, that at the association s tournaments the singles should be played right out, then the pairs, and finally the .rinks. The Auckland Bowling Centre, on the other hand will submit a remit proposing that the singles competition be played in sections' of six, each player to play against the other five on the first day, after which the two-life system shall apply, the outright unbeaten winners of sections to go forward as twolifers, and those tieing-as winners of sections with lsss than five wins to go forward as one-lifers."

The questions of test stamps and size and weight of bowls will also be considered, as well as the much-discussed matter of bowl testing, including the testing and altering of bowls in final games. Advice has been received by the New Zealand Bowling. Association that the American Lawn Bowling Association intends to make another application for affiliation with the International Bowline Board. ■ . ,