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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 December 1933, Page 4

From the days of Sir Francis Drake, the game of bowls has had a reputation of being absorbingly interesting. Bowlers are men, .it is said, who forget everything else. On Saturay afternd'oon at Wanganui East history was, to a certain extent, repeated. A bowler was so engrossed in his game that he took no heed of the shrieking siren of an approaching fire engine. It was not until a. friend drew his attention to the fact that it was his own house from which dark, black clouds were billowing that he allowed his interest to be taken from thb game, lie made ipost-hastc to his house, where he found the firemen already in possession and going about their duties. Realising that he knew less about the matter than they, he returned to his game of bowis and played it out before returning to his house again. Such is bowls!