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Story: Bowls, pétanque and tenpin

Playing bowls in Rotorua, 1980s

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Playing bowls in Rotorua, 1980s

In front of the handsome bathhouse building in Rotorua, bowlers dressed in their whites contemplate the position of their team's bowls.

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Auckland Council Libraries − Tāmaki Pātaka Kōrero o Tāmaki Makaurau, Sir George Grey Special Collections

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Lindsay Knight, Bowls, pétanque and tenpin – Lawn bowls: game, history and organisation, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/37972/playing-bowls-in-rotorua-1980s (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Lindsay Knight, published 15 November 2012, updated 1 January 2015.