SUCCESS OF BOWLERS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 142, 20 May 1925, Page 2

SUCCESS OF BOWLERS.

AT RECENT MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.

One of the- features of the recent municipal elections throughout New Zealand has been the success of bowler candidates. The Wellington City Council is now presided over by Mr C. J. 13. Norwood, who is known as a bowler from one end of the Dominion to tlio other, and who was last year president of the Victoria Club. Mr Norwood has with him on the council some kindred spirits in Cr. F. Meadowcroft (the president of the New Zealand Bowling Association), Cr. W. J. Thompson (one of the oldest members of the Wellington Club), Cr. B. G. H. Burn, of the Karori Club (who was the No. 3 of the team that won the champion rinks for the Wellington centre fast season), and Cr. W. H. Bennett, also a very reliable man on, the jack. Cr. It. A. Huggins is als6 'a bowler. The new Eastbourne Borough Council has a fair sprinkling of bowlers, and the Hutt and Petone Councils are not without representatives of the green. In Auckland, Mr G. Baildon, who has been elected Mayor, has been a keen bowler for the last twenty years. It is understood that alrencly he has issued a challenge to Mr Norwood to be ready to meet him on the green with a council rink early next season. All round Auckland the borough councils are largely composed of bowlers. The late Mayor of Wellington (Mr 11. A. Wright) stated on more than one occasion that bowlers were the most independent and enterprising men in the community in connection with their sport. They never approached the council to provide them with grounds, but always secured them for themselves, whilst other sports were for. ever going cap in hand to the local bodies to do something for them.