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Bowls Australia is the governing body for the sport of bowls in Australia. [1] Bowls Australia is responsible for the leadership, development and management of lawn bowls in Australia. It is a not-for-profit organisation governed by a voluntary board that provides the strategic direction for the sport and the strategies that are implemented by ...
The Australian National Bowls Championships and the Australian Open are organised by Bowls Australia.Bowls dates back to 1845 in Australia but it was not until 1910, during the 1910 Carnival of bowls that South Australia proposed the formation of the Australian Bowling Council (consisting of the six states) which duly formed the following year in 1911.
The Bowls Premier League (BPL) is an annual bowls competition involving teams from around Australia. The competition was founded in 2013 as a way to popularise the sport by presenting in a modernised format, using the term "made-for-television" in its promotion.
Fowler Potteries, later R. Fowler Sydney and R. Fowler Limited, was a manufacturer of ceramics in the colony of New South Wales, and in the Commonwealth of Australia, which still exist as the brand name Fowler within Caroma. Fowler is nominally the oldest still existing manufacturer of ceramics in Australia. [1] [2]
According to J. Copeland from the NCPIC and others, [80] cannabis in Australia is commonly smoked as a cluster (or "cone", similar to "bowls" as known in the United States) of the flowering heads (buds) or resin glands (also known as Hashish) of the female plant.
Columbia Industries, founded in 1960, was the first manufacturer to successfully use polyester resin ("plastic") in bowling balls. [37] In 1980, urethane-shell bowling balls were introduced by Ebonite. Rules for target bowls evolved separately in each of the other countries that adopted the predominantly British game.
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Massey was awarded the Order of Australia for services to bowls in 2006. In 2011 she was inducted into Bowls Australia’s Hall of Fame. [7] She died in October 2014. [8]