DOMINION BOWLING COUNCIL.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18591, 16 January 1926, Page 14

DOMINION BOWLING COUNCIL.

. MEETING AT DUNEDIN". (PBESa ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) M . DUNEDIN, January 15. The Council of the Dominion Bowling Association met to-night, Mr H. F. M. Mercer (Dunedin) presiding. P. J. Tasker (Wellington) wrote declining to pay a fine of £5 for defaulting at the tournament last year, as he had teen too unwell to play. Notice of motion was given that at the September meeting -the .fine be remitted. The question of adopting a new badge, the design of which waa received, was held over till the annual meeting, as was also a remit from the South Canterbury Centre that all stamps for bowl-testing prior to 1924 be declared illegal.

The Council decided to take no action in regard to a proposal to play a New Zealand-England test match during the present tournament.

It was decided that model rules and conditions governing all tournaments be compiled by the Executive Council. It waa agreed that North Island ' rinka competing at the Australian carnival should travel under the auspices of the Association. It was decided to adopt the "Wellington Centre's suggestion that an International Association of the British Commonwealth of Nations be formed, with the object of playing international games in different countries in turn, annually if possible, and it was resolved to enter into negotiations overseas.

The revised list of rules was adopted, the most important being the cutting out of the 1923 stamp.