THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1921. PAEROA BOWLING CLUB.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXII, Issue 4322, 26 September 1921, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1921. PAEROA BOWLING CLUB.

of the remarks made at a social evening held by the Paeroa Bowling Club last week, it is evident that the Club lacks that spirit of goodfellowship, cooperation, and pride in a common interest which are the necessary ingredients of harmony and success. Members recalled the days when the Club was a leading one on the Goldfields, and when inter-club matches were frequent, and they wondered why there should now be a deadness, a lack of . 'interest in the welfare of the Club. It seems all of a piece with the half-hearted-ness discernible in more than one institution in this district, and the antidote to such apathy and the existence of friction over small matters is the fostering of a proper pride in the town and district. If the members of the Club do not feel disposed to pull together for the good of the Club, let them do so for the sake of z the future of the town and district. Nature has made Paeroa a natural centre for the Thames Valley, Hauraki Plains, and Goldfields districts, and, taking his cue from Nature, man has made Paeroa a road and railway centre for the areas mentioned : further conscious and concentrated effort on the part of the citizens will cause Paeroa to develop into the commercial and social centre. It therefore behoves the members of all local institutions to pull together with a will, and to cultivate the goodwill of members ot kindred organisations in surrounding towns, so that they may look foiward with pleasure to visiting Paeroa, and be assured of finding an atmosphere of harmony and progressiveness. A little wider outlook, a more cordial frame of mind, and a more enterprising spirit are needed to make Paeroa and its citizens fitted for the great future which even now beckons them on. A bowling club should always be one of .the leading social and recreational bodies in any given town ; the annual meeting of the Paeroa fowling Club is about to be held, and this might well be made the jumping-off ground, so to speak, for a new or reinvigorated order of things in local bowling circles.