ROWLING PRESIDENT DEPLORES IMPRESSION OF AN ISLAND BIAS

Wanganui Chronicle, 19 July 1950, Page 6

ROWLING PRESIDENT DEPLORES IMPRESSION OF AN ISLAND BIAS

WELLINGTON, Yesterday (PA). —“Many bowlers throughout New’ Zealand will be disturbed at reports which have appeared recently in the Press regarding the constitution of the New Zealand Bowling Association,” said a statement issued today by the association’s president, Mr. W. F. Hadwin. He was referring to comment made at a meeting on July 12 of the Auckland Bowling Centre. “An impression could easily be gained that the affairs of the association are more or less in a bad way, and that only through strenuous efforts is control kept on an even keel—nothing is more absurd or further from the truth,” said Mr. Hadwin. “At the annual meeting of the council of the association in Wellington on June 28. the North Island was represented by 12 councillors and the South Island by 11 councillors. A sub-committee was set up to bring down a scheme which will embrace constitution alterations necessary to give effect to the principle of representation adopted at the council’s annual meeting. Each centre within the association has been invited to forward its submissions to the sub-committee by September 30. It will be seen, therefore. that each centre has been given an opportunity of expressing its views in a constitutional manner. As the sub-committee consists of three members from the North Island and three from the South Island, there can be no suggestion of island bias. The matter will be dealt with on national lines, and any suggestion to the contrary is to bo deeply deplored.”