Story: Bowls, pétanque and tenpin

Indoor bowls, Manurewa Workingmen's and Cosmopolitan Club, 1965

Indoor bowls, Manurewa Workingmen's and Cosmopolitan Club, 1965

Friendly societies, lodges and workingmen's clubs have been important sites for indoor bowls. The game was popular in the 1960s when this scene was photographed.

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Photograph by Murray Freer

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Lindsay Knight, 'Bowls, pétanque and tenpin - Indoor bowls', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/37989/indoor-bowls-manurewa-workingmens-and-cosmopolitan-club-1965 (accessed 14 May 2024)

Story by Lindsay Knight, published 5 Sep 2013, updated 1 Jan 2015