Kōrero: 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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Reference: Footprints 02771
Photograph by Murray Freer

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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Lindsay Knight, 'Bowls, pétanque and tenpin - Indoor bowls', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/photograph/37989/indoor-bowls-manurewa-workingmens-and-cosmopolitan-club-1965 (accessed 29 March 2024)

He kōrero nā Lindsay Knight, i tāngia i te 5 Sep 2013, updated 1 Jan 2015