George Carter (bowls)
{{Short description|New Zealand lawn bowls player}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2018}}
{{Use New Zealand English|date=June 2018}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
| name = George Carter
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| birth_name = George Henry Carter
| birth_date = 1883Victoria, Australia, Birth Index, 1837-1917
| birth_place = Victoria, Australia
| death_date = {{Death date and given age|1935|05|01|52|df=y}}
| death_place = Auckland, New Zealand
| spouse = {{marriage|Charlotte Ella McKenzie|1906}}
| occupation = Accountant
| country = New Zealand
| sport = Lawn bowls
| club = Carlton Bowling Club
| nationals =
| relatives = John McKenzie (brother-in-law)
Roy McKenzie (nephew)
Peter McKenzie (great-nephew)
}}
George Henry Carter (1883 – 1 May 1935) was a New Zealand lawn bowls player who competed for his country at the 1934 British Empire Games. Professionally, he was an accountant and a director of the McKenzies retail chain.
Early life, family, and business activities
Carter was born in Australia in about 1883.{{cite news | url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19350502.2.176 | title=Obituary: Mr. G. H. Carter | date=2 May 1935 | work=New Zealand Herald | accessdate=17 June 2018 | page=14}} In 1906, he married Charlotte Ella McKenzie, who, with her brother John, had founded a fancy goods store in Melbourne the previous year.{{DNZB |title=McKenzie, John Robert Hugh | first=Jennifer M.| last=Gill | id=4m21| accessdate=17 June 2018}} Carter was John McKenzie's accountant, and the store would eventually grow to become the J.R. McKenzie retail chain in New Zealand, with Carter as one of its directors.
George and Ella Carter went on two have two children. The Carters moved to New Zealand not long after John McKenzie relocated his business across the Tasman, living first in Wellington.{{cite news | url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19350503.2.99 | title=Mr. G. H. Carter | date=3 May 1935 | work=Evening Post | accessdate=17 June 2018 | page=9}} Carter retired from day-to-day involvement with J.R. McKenzie Ltd in about 1928, while remaining a director of the company, and moved to Auckland.
Lawn bowls
A member of the Carlton Bowling Club in Auckland, Carter was the skip of the men's four—alongside Billy Dillicar, Harold Grocott and George Pollard—that represented New Zealand at the 1934 British Empire Games in London.{{cite news | url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19340912.2.31.4 | title=New Zealand bowlers compete at the Empire Games | date=12 September 1934 | work=New Zealand Herald | accessdate=17 June 2018 | page=8}}{{cite news | url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19340925.2.26 | title=Empire bowlers: success of England | date=25 September 1934 | work=New Zealand Herald | accessdate=17 June 2018 | page=6}} They won four of their nine round-robin matches, finishing in fifth place.
Death
Carter died at his home in the Auckland suburb of Remuera on 1 May 1935, and his ashes were buried at Waikumete Cemetery.{{cite web |url=https://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/cemeteries/Pages/RecordDetails.aspx?recordId=B657AC3F66F18A186BAA686627D572EE |title=Burial record for George Henry Carter |publisher=Auckland Council |accessdate=17 June 2018}} His wife, Ella, died in Wellington in 1972.{{cite web |url=https://wellington.govt.nz/services/community-and-culture/cemeteries/cemeteries-search/details?id=35479&serviceType=Cremation |title=Cemeteries search |publisher=Wellington City Council |accessdate=17 June 2018}}
References
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External links
- [https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NA19340914.2.70.2 Photograph of George Carter and other members of the New Zealand lawn bowls team at the 1934 British Empire Games in London, Northern Advocate, 14 September 1934, p. 10]
{{1934 New Zealand British Empire Games team}}
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Category:Australian emigrants to New Zealand
Category:New Zealand male bowls players
Category:Bowls players at the 1934 British Empire Games
Category:20th-century New Zealand businesspeople
Category:Burials at Waikumete Cemetery