BOWLING.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2166, 21 August 1920, Page 2

BOWLING.

At the annual meeting of the Levin Bowling Club, held this week, the following offieers were elected for the ensuing year:—President, Mr. D. W. Matheson; vice-president, Mr F. S. Lancaster: secretary and treasurer, Mi' W. Bull; match committee, 'Messrs d. Pollock, F. (I. Roc and V. Higgins; green committee, Messrs V. Higgjns,. H. Chaunings, and J. A. Haswell. General Committee, Messrs Kimhell, Percy, Mclntyre, Hoe, pud Holdaway.

The balance-sheet showed the receipts to have been £124 2s 2d, made up of a balance of £!) 14s 9d in hand at the beginning of the year, bowlers’ subscriptions £B7 Os (id, croquet subscriptions £2O ss, sundries £1 2s. The expenditure left a credit balance of £3 IDs (id. The chief items were 1 : Top-dressing the green £24 Is !)d, interest £lB 2s, caretaker £4!) 13s, rates £4 4s 9d, shell £0 10s.

.Mr Higgins raised the question of having delinke rides drawn up foV the triangular shield matches. At |7rcseut the position was very unsatisfactory.

On Mr Bull’s motion, .Messrs Pollock and Higgins were appointed to meed Shannon and Foxion delegates and go into the matter. The question of making the Levin green, which at. present is owned by a company, a municipal one, has been under consideration by (he bowlers there for some time, and a committee was recently set up to go fully into the matter. The company offered to sell the green for £375, and Ihe suggestion is that tin additional half-acre adjoining should be purchased for croquet lawns, making in all 1.1 acres. This additional land, together with the expense of laying down the lawns, would cost a further £325. At the annual meeting of (he Levin Club the committee reported as follows: —it is recommended that the sum of £709 be raised by donations and organised effort.--, to purchase the present green from the proprietary, and to purchase a further half-acre ad- ■ joining, same to be laid down for the purposes of croquet; the property when purchased to he vested in the Levin Borough Council, and the bowling and croquet clubs to obtain a lease on Glasgow terms, the upkeep to bo borne by the club to the satisfiU'tion of the borough. Tins recommendation was adopted, and a meeting is to be held later to devise ways and means for rais-

ing the necessary money