BOWLING,

Waikato Times, Volume 115, Issue 19269, 30 May 1934, Page 13

BOWLING,

density of bowls. DISCUSSED AT DUNEDIN. DUNEDIN, Tuesday. At the anual meeting of the Dunedin Bowling Centre to-night, the matter of hensclite bowls was discussed and a chart was submitted showing the density of the various makes of bowls, according to the Birth hardometor tost,. Under this test the density of lignum vitae was given as 31 and hensclite as 50, this being easily the highest of all makes. The following resolution was - carried; —The delegates to the Dunedin Centre, being convinced that hensclite bowls in use locally have done damage to and thus proved, injurious, to wooden bowls, request the council of the Dominion Bowling Association, before granting its approval of hensclite bowls, to consider carefully (1) whether the high density test of henselitc bowls in comparison with wooden bowls will not lead to premature. and speedy deterioration of wooden “bowls, which form approximately 95 per cent, of the bowls in use in New Zealand; (2) whether the time has not arrived, in the interests of Ihe preservation of wooden bowls, to adopt a reegonised density test fin' all bowls, and tlx by such a lesl the maximum hardness or density that may be permitted in any future type of composition bowl being introduced into New Zealand.