TOURING BOWLERS HOME BY NIAGARA
“EVENT OF A LIFETIME. Per Press-Association. AUCKLAND, Last Night. The first members of the New Zealand bowling! team to return. home after the tour of the British Isles/the Continent and Canada arrived by the Niagara to-day, including the wives of the' players ’ the I party on the vessel numbered 27. After the. tour of Canada, about half the company went south,to California for more bowling ahd they are there how. Four or live S embers will return to Wellington by .o Makura on her next trip and the others will come home at their leisure. Air are agreed the’ tour has bjeen mqst, enjoyable and the; event of a lifetime. ’ !.,/
“It was a wonderful trip,” said Mr; ,R. Eegleton,; “but X think that, on the whole,, our standard of bowling is just as good as any wo met on the tour.” A Mr. Eagleton commented upon the extraordinary variety of greens which they experienced, the range being from good to indifferent and bad. Ho paid a tribute ’to the hospitality everywhere accorded the party.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6733, 9 October 1928, Page 7
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