Indoor Bowls Champions

Top players from 18 indoor bowls clubs competed recently for the Champion of Champions awards of the Poverty Bay-Bast Coast Indoor Bowling Association. The games were held in the R.S.A. Club's hall in Wainui Road.

Although the Association was formed only in 1955, there are already 1084 players affiliated, belonging to 31 clubs in the district, which extends from the Mohaka River to East Cape. In this year alone, seven additional clubs, with 165 players, have affiliated.

Ormond: A. Hutchens

P.B.: J. Harrison

Matawai: Mrs Pilmer

Waterfront: Mrs Iremonger

Aero: A. Ashwell

Public Service: Mrs Glover

Tolaga Bay: T. Corkhlll

Hibernians: T. O'Connell

Wainui Beach: G. File

Kahutia: H. Farrell

Kaiti: L. Clark

Mangapapa: Mrs Simmers

St. Marks: E. Carter

Kaiti Labour: J. Griggs

Patutahi: Mrs Howard

R.S.A.: D. Scholium

Makaraka: F. Moore

Wairoa: G. Archibald

The 18 singles contestants appear on the facing page, and most of the doubles players on this page. On the next page are the semi-finalists in the fours.

The singles winner was A. Hutchens (Ormond), with J. Harrison (Poverty Bay) as runner-up.

Doubles winners were Mr and Mrs Legge (Kaiti), and the runners-up were G. Whitehead and R. Harding (Matawai).

Kaiti: Mr and Mrs Legge

Matawai: G. Whitehead, R. Harding

P.B.: Mrs Harper, J. Harrison

Mangapapa:. Mrs Smythe, T. Dunstan

Aero Club: Mr and Mrs Stevens

Makaraka: Mrs Reichenbach, Mrs Nicklin

Kaiti Labour: J. Griggs, Mrs Bowden

Toiaga Bay: B. Lawrence, H. Rimmer

Ormonds: Mrs Crooks, R. Symon

St. Marks: M. Ashton, Mrs Lewis

Patutahi: G. and A. Archibald

Hibernians: T. and C. Vaughan

Kahutia: A. F. Grieve, M. Lynch |

Public Service: Mrs Mansfield, Mrs Glover

The Champion of Champions fours tournament was won by Mr and Mrs M. Moore and Mr and Mrs E. Scragg, of the Poverty Bay club. Mr Scragg was the skip. The semi-finalists are pictured above. T. Dunstan's Mangapapa four were runners-up.

P.B.: M. Moore, Mrs Moore, Mrs Scragg, E. Scragg (s).

Mangapapa: T. Dunstan (s), H. J. Masemann, E. L. White, A. Barrow.

Wairoas: G. Archibald (s), V. Drysdale, H. N. Crocker, A. Archibald.

Makaraka: A. Gibson, J. Bell (s), L. Gardner, W. McNamara.

Working in Central Australia for a geoseismic survey crew are, left to right, Ken Beere (Gisborne), Bill Sampson (New Plymouth), and John Atkinson, (Gisborne).

Rev. Father J. Sheehan, who has been in Gisborne for the last 13 years, is leaving to take up a new appointment as chaplain to the Little Sisters of the Poor at Auckland. This picture was taken when he was farewelled by members of the Legion of Mary. From left, Miss U. Quinn (vice-president), E. O'Connor, Mrs Nissen, Miss M. Gallagher, Mrs H. Hooper (president), Mr B. Zwart, Rev. Father Sheehan, W. Gordon, Miss J. Grieve, Mrs Cresswell, Mr E. O'Donoghue.

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The Gisborne Photo News

No 88 : October 5, 1961

Indoor Bowls Champions