Walcha History || Flood sets bowls clubhouse adrift

By Bob Walsh
Updated March 27 2019 - 2:26pm, first published March 26 2019 - 4:00pm
Smooth release: Club patron WM “Doc” Lonergan bowls the “first” ball at the 1966 opening of the club’s second green with Fred Roper standing close by.
Smooth release: Club patron WM “Doc” Lonergan bowls the “first” ball at the 1966 opening of the club’s second green with Fred Roper standing close by.

Interest in sports returned to normal at the end of World War II as shown in this report from the Armidale Express September 17, 1945, which reads: "Sociability and good sportsmanship was the order of the day for the Armidale Bowling Club on the occasion of the visit by Walcha bowlers at the weekend.

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