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Winners of Five (or More) New Zealand Championships

Awarded the Gold Five Star of the Association
F. Livingstone (Onehunga): singles, 1936, 1952; pairs, 1949, 1962; fours, 1940, 1948.
T. T. Skoglund (Otahuhu and Carlton): fours, 1949, 1951, 1954, 1958; pairs, 1960.
Entitled to the Same Award
The late M. J. Squire (Hawera and West End): singles, 1944; pairs, 1933, 1941; fours, 1952, 1961.
The late M. Walker (Ponsonby and Auckland): singles, 1915, 1919, 1923; pairs, 1927; fours, 1932.
Empire Games
1930 (Hamilton, Canada):
Pairs New Zealand second.
Fours New Zealand second equal.
1934 (London):
New Zealand unplaced.
1938 (Sydney):
Singles New Zealand second.
Pairs New Zealand first.
Fours New Zealand first.
1950 (Auckland):
Singles New Zealand first.
Pairs New Zealand first.
1954 (Vancouver):
Singles New Zealand second.
1958 (Cardiff):
Pairs New Zealand first.
1962 (Perth):
Pairs New Zealand first.

New Zealand has won the Pairs Gold Medal four times in the last five series of games.

by Robert Sproull Menzies Sinclair, B.A., M.COM., DIP.SOC.SCI., Secretary-Treasurer, New Zealand Bowling Association, Dunedin.