![]() ![]() ![]() Lawn bowls didn’t come in to her life until 1972, when a girlfriend talked her in to having a go at the Hikurangi Bowling Club, a few miles north of Whangarei. In 1979, the Northern Advocate described Gwen as a ‘pillar of North netball’. Gwen ended up as Association President for Netball from 1960 to 1962 and an Umpire for Netball New Zealand for 30 years from 1954 to 1985. Like marching, netball was about more than just playing the game. In the 50s and 60s she became involved in netball. I joined marching when I was just 8, and I was on the marching Association Committee by the age of 15.” Gwen found herself being a marcher, an instructor, and a qualified judge for the New Zealand Marching Association from 1960, as well as New Zealand Association Treasurer from 1992 to 1994. “Lawn bowls is my great love,” says Gwen, “but it wasn’t my first love. ![]() Gwen has not only been there, done that when it comes to voluntary service … but is still being there, doing that coming up to the age of 80. That’s without even considering her lifetime of voluntary work in sports including netball, marching, softball and basketball, and in community organisations like Solo Parents. So much has been her influence on lawn bowlers in Northland, and for that matter, the rest of New Zealand. Her fans must have been lining up to get a piece of the nominee action. But even more thrilled and humbled by the work that her many fans must have put in to nominate her for her service to sports administration over 64 years, including lawn bowls. Gwen Lawson is thrilled with the Queen’s Service Medal she received in this year’s New Year’s Honours. ![]()
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