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Story: Bowls, pétanque and tenpin

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

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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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Lindsay Knight, Bowls, pétanque and tenpin – Indoor bowls, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/37989/indoor-bowls-manurewa-workingmens-and-cosmopolitan-club-1965 (accessed 4 June 2026).

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