James Pirret
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| Born | (1915-02-22)22 February 1915 | |||||||||||||||||
| Died | 4 December 1976(1976-12-04) (aged 61) | |||||||||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||||||||
| Country | New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Lawn bowls | |||||||||||||||||
| Club | Tuakau Bowling Club | |||||||||||||||||
| Achievements and titles | ||||||||||||||||||
| National finals | Men's singles champion (1957) Men's pairs champion (1958) | |||||||||||||||||
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James "Ham" Pirret (22 February 1915 – 4 December 1976) was a New Zealand lawn bowls player.
At the 1950 British Empire Games in Auckland he won the men's singles gold medal.[1] In 1954 at the next British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver he won the silver medal in the men's singles.[2] Pirret competed in the men's singles at his third consecutive British Empire and Commonwealth Games in 1958 at Cardiff, finishing in sixth place.[3]
Pirret won two New Zealand National Bowls Championships titles representing the Tuakau Bowling Club: the men's singles in 1957; and the men's pairs (as skip), with C. J. Rogers, in 1958.[4]
Pirret died on 4 December 1976, and his ashes were buried at Tuakau Cemetery.[5]
References
- ^ "N.Z.'s two bowling titles". The Advocate. 9 February 1950. p. 6. Retrieved 18 July 2016.
- ^ "Bosisto tie for 4th". The Courier-Mail. 5 August 1954. p. 10. Retrieved 18 July 2016.
- ^ "James Pirrett". New Zealand Olympic Committee. Retrieved 18 July 2016.
- ^ McLintock, A. H., ed. (1966). "Tournament winners". An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
- ^ "Cemeteries database". Waikato District Council. Retrieved 18 July 2016.
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1950 New Zealand British Empire Games team
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- Dave Batten
- Kevin Beardsley
- Johnny Borland
- Bev Brewis
- Gordon Bromley
- Johnny Brown
- Max Carr
- Jack Clarke
- Claude Clegg
- Dave Dephoff
- Ruth Dowman
- Arthur Eustace
- Pixie Fletcher
- Keith Forsythe
- Lionel Fox
- Arthur Fuller
- Noeline Gourley
- Shirley Hardman
- Doug Harris
- Joan Hart
- Peter Henderson
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- Roy Johnson
- Don Jowett
- Colin Kay
- Stan Lay
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- Clyde Main
- Colleen Malone
- Maurice Marshall
- George Martin
- Raymond McKenzie
- Keith Morgan
- John Myles
- Harold Nelson
- Dorothea Parker
- Clem Parker
- Gus Redmond
- Eric Rhodes
- Merv Richards
- Cleone Rivett-Carnac
- Lesley Rowe
- June Schoch
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- Jack Sinclair
- Lionel Smith
- Barry Steel
- Derek Steward
- Jack Sutherland
- Noelene Swinton
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- Roy Woolley
- Jim Barnden
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- Christopher Rollinson
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- Nick Carter
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- James Downie
- Graham Hughes
- Ted Lambert
- Les Lock
- Don Olive
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- Allen Stonex
- Frank Tredrea
- Joyce Carpenter
- Owen Jaine
- Betty Moore
- Mayzod Reid
- Jack Stewart
- Florence Andrews
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- Charles Dearing
- William Elsom
- Eric Flaws
- Austen Gittos
- Murray Gittos
- Trevor Hadley
- Olga Jekyll
- J.H. Malcolm
- Allan McLeavey
- Nathaniel Millar
- J. Shaw
- Julius Stafford
- Joseph Ward
- Patricia Woodroffe
- Dudley Wright
- Arthur Engebretsen
- Phil Exelby
- Robert Henry
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- Fred Russell
- Pete Skoglund
- Donald Adam
- Kerry Ashby
- Murray Ashby
- Bill Carroll
- Bruce Culpan
- Thomas Engel
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- Winifred Griffin
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- Joan Hastings
- Kristin Jacobi
- Buddy Lucas
- Helen Mackenzie
- Peter Mathieson
- John Shanahan
- Jean Stewart
- Margaret Sweeney
- Charles Brown
- Jim Cameron
- Terry Harris
- Bob Hatchwell
- Barrie Hutchinson
- Tom Logan
- Edward Raven
- Jim Walsh
- Neil Williams
- Wally Williams
- Trevor Clark
- Harold Cleghorn
- Tony George
- Lewis Lawn
- Edwin Norton
- John Armitt
- Peter Fletcher
- Gordon Hobson
- Eric Matthews
- Jack Monaghan
- Doug Mudgway
- Pat O'Connor
- Arthur Sneddon
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