BOWLS CHAMPIONSHIP

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25277, 14 July 1943, Page 4

BOWLS CHAMPIONSHIP

NEW ZEALAND COUNCIL TO MEET

Whether , a New Zealand championship bowling tournament will be held next January is to be decided at a special meeting of the council of the New Zealand. Bowling Association in Wellington on July’3o. The tournament, which is the occasion for the gathering of hundreds of players, is usually held in each of the four main centres in rotation. The 1942 tournament was to have .been held in Dunedin, but the extension of the war to the Pacific and the Government’s request that travel should be avoided caused the tournament to be abandoned at the last moment. This year’s tournament also was abandoned for similar reasons.

At a meeting in May of the executive of the association, which still lias its headquarters in Dunedin, the chairman, Mr J. Forster, said there were a number of difficulties to be faced in connection with the tournament, and 'he. thought that the full council should bC given an opportunity of hearing the views of the executive on the subject and those of other councillors. The chairman’s suggestion that a meeting be held was adopted after that proposal had found support from councillors in correspondence. Besides the question of holding the tournament the meeting will have before it matters of general business submitted by the executive and any urgent or important subjects submitted by councillors. The meeting is to be confined to one day.