NEW ZEALAND'S WISHES

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 103, 28 October 1932, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND'S WISHES

f The question whether the American iLsjwn Bowling Association should be ad- , initted to membership of tlje International Bowling Board is a matter o£ some interest in the bowling world. The position at present is that the Dominions of the British Empire are favourable to the admission of America, but the Home Country Associations are hostile. In New Zealand there has been an impression that Mr. Ivor,B. Thomas, of the Welsh Bowling Association, and one of the representatives of New Zealand' on the International Bowling Board, voted against the admission of America contrary to the wishes of the Xew Zealand Bowling Association, but it now transpires that this is not the case. The K.Z.B.A. has received a letter from Mr. Thomas under date 3rd September, | stating that since he has had the honour of representing the N.Z.B.A. or, at any rate since he has been informed of Xew Zealand's wishes in the matter, he has not voted against the Americans coming in. "I liaye frequently spoken against their inclusion,and I submit that I am quite entitled to do " this," says Mr. Thomas, "but no notion of mine has ever prevented .the Americans from coming into the 1.8.8. since I represented your association." Mr. Thomas adds that at the meeting of the board in July at Glasgow both Mr. L. G. P. Spencer, the other ICew Zealand delegate, and he were prepared to vote in accordance with New Zealand's instructions^ but, the chairman ruled that the question was hot before- the meeting, so there was no opportunity 6f voting.