QUEENSLAND BOWLERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18298, 15 January 1923, Page 9

QUEENSLAND BOWLERS.

V.. -— ; — ..♦ ————— ARRIVAL AT AUCKLAND, v " "p '"■ ' ~~" 1 . . CIVIC RECEPTION ACCORDED. ■"The Queensland bowling team arrived from Rolorua on Saturday afternoon and was welcomed at the railway station by ISIr. W. Coltman, president of the New Zealand Bowling Association, and Mr. J. W. Hacdley,'..president of the Auckland centre. There are altogether 35 persons : in the party, some of the bowlers being accompanied by their wives and members of theia- families. A civic reception was accorded in the evening, when the council chamber of The- Town Hall was "crowded. '"••" ' The Mayor, Mr. .7. H. Gnnson; expressed the delight 0: Aucklanders at welcoming representatives of the bowling interests of Queensland, and said the visit, was appreciated tbe more because if was-long deferred. It was not only as bowlers that the visijt was appreciated, but also as citizens. Visits of Queensland . /representative teams had not been as frequent as delegations from other States in the Commonwealth. The ties that bound Australia and New Zealand were very real, and lie. referred -16 the association of;their soldiers in thejgreat war. : • Mr. 'Hardley-' also made a brief speech of welcome, .saying that as bowlers recognised the . world;: ovjir, it was sociability -that counted, for eytprything.; It mattered not what .the bowler was,; so 1 long !as he .''played the game. The Queens-, I landers, he knew, wore the best of "sports," . for he had played against j,hem: on their own greens. (Applause.) M '-.:' 'Mr. Pi.; J. Archibald, president oi; the Queensland Bowling ._ Association,.,- . expressed appreciation of the : wonderful welcome, and said that right from the / time of their arrival in" the Dominion they had been similarly honoured; He hoped the New Zealand .and. Queensland Bowling Associations would enter into a com-, pact for tours in alternate ! years, and. he; j cordially thanked the Mayor for the civic--reception and' the bowlers for their great kinrbiess. ', ; . : ■:■.:.:■■'■.:'■'{■'.■ '■■■ 'k .1 j. Cheers for the visitors were heartily; ■returned and the Mayor was also cheered.-. ■: I The visitors =: were suhsequentßy enter-': j tained by local bowlers, in the Auckland Bowling Club's pavilion, and yesterday 'they were the guests of the New Zealand, Bowling Association on; a harbour excursion.; To-day they'will play a game onthe Takapuna green.