BOWLING

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 173, 23 June 1936, Page 2

BOWLING

NEW ZEALAND COUNCIL. REMITS FROM MANAWATU. Ail" increase of 554 in the total membership of bowling clubs in New Zealand during the last 12 months is announced in the annual report of the New Zealand Rowling Association, the annual meeting of which is to be held in "Wellington on July 1. The number of centres affiliated to the association is 22, 11 each in the North Island and the South Island. During the year five clubs were granted affiliation, and the number of clubs on the register is now 362. with an aggregate membership of 16.692 The association’s year commenced with a credit balance at the bank of £294. and ended with a credit balance of £396. The amount received from the annual levy on centres showed a slight increase for the year, but the tournament entry fees, although a record for the South Island, were slightly below those, for last year. “The surplus of receipts over expenditure is again very gratifying,” states the report, “and it would appear that under ordinary circumstances our accumulated funds should continue to rise as time goes on.” In dealing with the work of the International Bowling Board, the report, refers to the fact that the board decided at its annual meeting last year that, as the Empire Games would be held in Sydney in 1938, the proposed tour of the Dominion by a British team should be postponed until the season 1937-38. when both countries could be visited. The Nelson Centre has forwarded a remit suggesting that in future New Zealand tournaments all competitors obtain a certificate from their official bowl-tester that the bowls used by them conform with the New Zealand bowling standard, thus obviating the unneces-sai-y delay and annoyance to competitors and spectators, alike before the commencem'jnt of the final games.

Correspondence from the Manawatu Centre with regard to representation on the council has been referred to the annual* meeting. A remit fonvarded by the Centre for discussion is that the conditions for the singles championship held under the jurisdiction of the New Zealand Bowling Association’s tournaments be amended to provide that all section winners go forward to postsection play under equal conditions. Another remit from the Manawatu Centre points out that rule 18 is not being strictly observed, and expresses the opinion that it should be enforced for all New Zealand competitors. The Manawatu Centre also request that rule 14 be amended by adding the following words after the word “mat,” “or encroach on the adjacent rinks.” Rule 18 declares: “Players must be bona fide members of an affiliated club. Each competitor must be a bona fide ordinary or life member of a club affiliated with the New Zealand Bowling Association or some other approved association, and any player failing to produce a certificate to that effect shall be liable to be disqualified. Rinks may be composed of three members of one club and a member of another club, who shall not skip. This rule shall not apply to a rink from any club in the tournament centre, which must be composed entirely of members of the same club. Honorary or associate member arc not eligible for tournament play.” Rule 14 declares: “A player, having relivered his" bowl, must not follow it further than 20ft from the mat.”