REMITS FOR DOMINION BOWLS CONFERENCE

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 145, 21 June 1941, Page 4 (Supplement)

REMITS FOR DOMINION BOWLS CONFERENCE

j (By TRUNDLER.) j The annual meeting of tile Kew | land Bowling Council, to be • Dunedin on Thursday of next we*. * deal with an exceptionally JJ® paper, including remits from all oTeft! Dominion, on an exceptionally Ji® variety oi subjects. A remit from the Bay of Plenty fw will douut.less be Fettled instantly It 3? the council to remit rhe levy on servine in the overseas forces Vh®* club desires to pay them the * oi keeping Tuein em-Mled aa l>ers. As the annual lpvv is sixpence per member, with a 25 per cent for prompt pavment iHt likeiv that the council will refuse to fc£s up the nice compliment paid bv fhr r tTi concerned. " hat is of vastly more iffiTvjrt**.. however, is the apparent, failurerfi?" and other centres to take advanfcL ;5 the council's provision, made soonlAU the war began, whereby eveiv hS? joiner overseas should be furnished witt?* parchment certitir-ate of memberehinTV item appeared on the council mimS when the eehemc was arranged, andi?* every time a centre applied for -J 3 ? supply," and yet only about h&!f > centres have clone this. Remits regarding the actual play iirf»i. a proposal from Lhinedin, baciing Auckland scheme, for starting the Willi five rounds ot section plav anrf Manawatu remit to alter law 84 "ni idea of the latter is to remove tie opposing bowls tojehing the jack, or the two nearest are a tie, and decide t2 count by the nest nearest, which counse, may ill ii= count any number bam one to seven This would automation! dispose oi th<» second clause in lurlM for there would then be no drawn end*. A Christfchurch notice of motion k {» law 12 " to be considered and, if tftonriJ necessary, altered." Private advices jS? cate that this is with the idea of etonhnT ing a warning for foot off the matTaai l>enalising a foot faulr at the f>T*t offeoct as in tennis and cricket. Hie cwmrij will prooably bear m mind that thettk similar provision for a warning in international code. As New ZmluS started the scheme for world-wide mr? form it y in laws of the game, at tie council meeiing in January, 1937* it worid directly contravene the Dominion'* on proposal if this alteration was made wia. out consulting the other associations. The same angumem supports the V«th Centres remit, to revert to the old term "rinks" in place of "foo»," f w the council copied Australia in adoptfoe "fours," although four players are caM a rink in every other country in thew«y.