TE PUKE BOWLING CLUB

Te Puke Times, Volume II, Issue II, 4 July 1913, Page 3

TE PUKE BOWLING CLUB

— 1 — ♦ — ANNUAL REPORT. The following is the report presented at the annual meeting of the Te Puke Bowling Club, held last week : Gentlemen, ' Your commitee have much pleasure in submitting to you their annual report of the Club's progress during the past season : Grounds: On the recommendation of the last general annual meeting the Club purchased from Messrs King and Jamieson half an acre of land on the southern side of the present green to meet the. future requirements of the Clijb. A croquet lawn has just been laid down and will probably be available for play during the coming season. An extra rink has also been roughly formed, and it 1 is intended to complete it next autumn. The green has been levelled and top-dressed. Finance: The Club commenced the year with an overdraft at the Bank of New Zealand of £2513s lid. There were also debts due by the Club to the extent of £40 13s 4d. Owing to the heavy expenditure during the season incidental to the laying down of the croquet lawn, levelling of bowling green and the watering therof the overdraft is now £7419s 7d. Your Committee, in view of the increasing overdraft, are of opinion that the annual subscription should be raised to £2 2s. They also favor the holding of a bazaar as a further means of reducing the overdraft.

Membership : The season commenced with a membership of 25. During the year 15 new mem- < bers were elected, the member- i ship now being 40. 1 Games: The Club competitions- < resulted as follows : Champion-, ship Singles, won by T. E. Palmer ;. Handicap Singles, won by i R. Bell; Subscription Pairs, won by Wriglcy and McLaren ; First Year Players' Singles, won by J. < A. Hawkins; Drawing Competi- 1 tion, won by Dr Young. _ 'Stars Competition': During the year there was inaugurated a i ' Stars Competition' between 1 the two Tauranga Clubs and this : Club. In the initial Tournament the Club were successful in winding the 'Stars' and were also i .successful..in, 'defeating seven subsequent challenges. The Stars : were ujtimatelyjost to the Tauranga Club, hold them. , A team journeyed to Rotorua in February and took part in the tournament there, winning seven games and losing five. The team consisted of Messrs Palmer, Montgomery. Chester, and Grey. Several friendly and interesting games were also played with the Tauranga Clubs, We also had a visit from a team of bowlers from Rotorua. Thanks, The thanks of the Club are due to the Distilleries Company Limited, Messrs Young and Co., of Wellington, on behalf of Watson and Co., of Dundee, and Campbell, Ehrenfried, of Auckland, who each presented a pair of bowls to the Club, to Mr C. R. Waddell, of Auckland, for the presentation of a gold medal for the champion bowler, to Mrs J Jamieson for entertaining members at afternoon tea throughout the season, to Messrs Anderson and Wilson for supplying the levels of the green, and to those who in no small measure addec to the success of the last annual Ball by donations of poultry, etc., 1 and to Messrs Palmer and Muir for levelling and top-dressing the 1 g^ eer " | • Recommendations: The Comi mittee i recommend that the i ■ acre of land recently purchased i be leased to the Tennis Club for • a term of five vears at a rental ■ equivalent to the interest payable ! on the purchase money due for • the land.

Bank Charges t ~350 Postage and Stationery 10 0 Total 124 19 0 ASSETS By Bowling Green ~ 180 0 0 „ Tanks, piping etc. 35 0 0 ~ Mowers,, ~ 10 0 0 ~ Subscriptions due 6 3 0 ~ Cash in hand 16 4 Excess of liabilities over assets „ 11 0 0 £242 19 4 LIABILITIES To Messrs King and Jamieson, for land 150 0 0 " Casual Expenses,, 10 9 9 ~ Bank of New Zealand 74 19 7 ~ Interest on £150 due J on land „ ~ 710 0 £242 19 4