Ron Buchan
Maurice Ronald Buchan MBE (6 December 1907 – 30 January 2003) was a New Zealand international lawn bowler.[1]
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| Full name | Maurice Ronald Buchan | |||||||||||||
| Born | 6 December 1907 | |||||||||||||
| Died | 30 January 2003 (aged 95) Hamilton, New Zealand | |||||||||||||
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| Country | New Zealand | |||||||||||||
| Sport | Lawn bowls | |||||||||||||
| Club | Tui Park Bowling Club | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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Bowls career
He competed in the first World Bowls Championship in Kyeemagh, New South Wales, Australia in 1966 [2] and won a gold medal in the fours with Norm Lash, Gordon Jolly and Bill O'Neill at the event.[3]
He won the 1964 and 1965 singles title and the 1957 fours title at the New Zealand National Bowls Championships when bowling for the Tui Park Bowls Club.[4]
Honours and awards
In the 1986 Queen's Birthday Honours, Buchan was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to bowling.[5] In 2013, he was an inaugural inductee into the New Zealand Bowls Hall of Fame.[6]
References
- "Profile". Bowls tawa.
- Ampol Petroleum Ltd (1966). First World Bowls Championship Pre ISBN. Public Relations Dept, Ampol Petroleum Ltd, Sydney, Australia.
- "World Bowls Champions". Burnside Bowling Club.
- "New Zealand Championships". Bowls Tawa.
- "No. 50553". The London Gazette (3rd supplement). 14 June 1986. p. 32.
- Hassall, Grant (10 September 2013). "Big names miss out on hall of fame honour". Stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
- Maddaford, Terry (1 February 2003). "Bowls: Solomon thrown out for 2 years". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
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