THE SINGLES CHAMPION

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 17, 21 January 1938, Page 11

THE SINGLES CHAMPION

The winner of the New Zealand Bowling Association's singles championship title at Dunedin, Mr. W. D. Bennett, is quite well known in sports circles in Wellington. At one time he was on the teaching staff at the Newtown School. He is a man who has taken a keen interest in many branches of sport, and while in Wellington was a member of the Wellington Cricket Club.

It was after Mr. Bennett left Wellington to take up an appointment as headmaster of the Picton School that the game of bowls.claimed his attention, and' there he won the Picton Club's, junior and singles titles. From Picton he went to Thames as headmaster, and afterwards was headmaster at Upper Hutt. At both these places he added to his laurels as a bowler. His headmastership at Upper Hutt was his last post; he retired from the teaching, service. there' and went to Hastings. ' ; Members of Mr. Bennett's family also have won distinction in sports circles. A son, Mr. H. Bennett, and a daughter, Miss H. Bennett (now the wife of Mr. L. A. Tracy, a former Australasian athletic champion), were regular, and prominent competitors at athletic meetings in Wellington a few years back.

Mi*. Bennett is arriving in Wellington tomorrow morning from the south;