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Kōrero: Bowls, pétanque and tenpin

Pétanque in Stanley Bay, 2009

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Pétanque in Stanley Bay, 2009

Using the correct technique, with her hand on top of the ball, Joan Parley throws the hollow steel pétanque ball during a game with her husband, Charles. They were playing on gravel at the Stanley Bay Bowling Club on the North Shore, Auckland. Pétanque is quite often played at bowling club greens.

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New Zealand Herald

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Lindsay Knight, Bowls, pétanque and tenpin – Pétanque, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/37992/petanque-in-stanley-bay-2009 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Lindsay Knight, i tāngia i te 15 November 2012, updated 1 January 2015.