BOWLING

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 36, 12 February 1941, Page 5

BOWLING

CENTRE MEETING

PATRIOTIC EFFORT

There was a full attendance at the first meeting this year of the Wellington Bowling Centre at the Wellington Bowling Club's pavilion last night. The president of the centre, Mr. T. Lock (Khandallah), presided.

Tributes were paid to the memory of the well-known bowlers Mr. J. Forsyth (Woburn), Mr. T. Forsyth (Victoria), Mr. D. McKenzie (Lower Hutt), and Mr. F. Bennett (Khandallah), who died since the centre last met.

Reporting on the activities of bowlers throughout the centre to raise funds for patriotic purposes, the treasurer (Mr. J. Kershaw) said that amounts received since the end of the year, when the patriotic fund stood at £7 8s 6d," had brought the total to £88 The secretary (Mr. A. F. Spiller) said* that the total had been further increased by sums that had come in during the day. Arrangements for a visit by a team representing the centre to Marlborough on Febx-uary 15 were completed. It was agreed that play should be confined to the Blenheim green, as players were not in-favour of splitting up so that the Picton green could be used. An invitation for five fours to visit Paraparaumu was accepted and the second weekend in March was selected as a suitable time for the match.

Applications for tournaments were received from Mr. H. R. Hounsell for the Civil Service superannuitants' pairs tournament on February 25, and from Mr. A. F. Spiller for the returned soldiers' tournament on February 27. Both dates were approved. It was agreed that £2 2s be donated to the funds of the greenkeepers' tournament, which was held yesterday. A letter from the Wanganui and Manawatu Bowling Centres suggesting that the constitution of the New Zealand Bowling Association should be altered to enable all centres to be represented on the council of the association was considered. The opinion was expressed that the present constitution had enabled the association to do good work in New Zealand for bowling and that there was no real reason for a change. Other delegates said that there was no question about bowling management; the question was one of representation for all. The reply to this was that the seven councillors from each island represented all of the bowlers in their respective islands. The matter was held over for an expression of opinion from clubs.