George Pollard (bowls)
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| birth_name = George Gladstone Pollard
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1874|12|30|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Auckland, New Zealand
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1963|09|10|1874|12|30|df=yes}}
| death_place = Auckland, New Zealand
| spouse = {{marriage|Helen Oliver Knox|1898|1950|end=d.}}
| occupation = Builder
| country = New Zealand
| sport = Lawn bowls
| club = Carlton Bowling Club
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George Gladstone Pollard (30 December 1874 – 10 September 1963) was a New Zealand lawn bowls player who competed for his country at the 1934 British Empire Games.
Early life and family
Born in Auckland on 30 December 1874, Pollard was the son of Sarah and Alfred Pollard.{{cite web |url=https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/search/search?path=%2FqueryEntry.m%3Ftype%3Dbirths |title=Birth search:registration number 1875/5436 |website=Births, deaths & marriages online |publisher=Department of Internal Affairs |accessdate=18 June 2018}} On 26 January 1898, he married Helen Oliver Knox at the Wesleyan church in Grafton Road, Auckland.{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS18980215.2.53 |title=Marriages |date=15 February 1898 |work=Auckland Star |page=8 |accessdate=18 June 2018}}
Builder
Pollard was a builder, and served on the committee of the Auckland Master Builders' Association.{{cite news | url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19281220.2.17 | title=Auckland association: annual meeting | date=20 December 1928 | work=The Press | accessdate=18 June 2018 | page=4}} He was responsible for the construction in 1923–24 of the (former) W.A. Thompson and Company building, designed by architects Holman, Moses and Watkin, at 307–319 Queen Street, Auckland, that was given historic place category 2 status by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust in 1987.{{cite web |url=http://www.heritage.org.nz/the-list/details/4587 |title=W. A. Thompson and Company building (former) |publisher=Heritage New Zealand |accessdate=18 June 2018}}
Lawn bowls
A member of the Carlton Bowling Club in Auckland, Pollard was a member of the men's four—alongside Billy Dillicar, Harold Grocott and George Carter (skip)—that represented New Zealand at the 1934 British Empire Games in London.{{cite news | url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ODT19340903.2.145 | title=The New Zealand bowlers | date=3 September 1934 | work=Otago Daily Times | accessdate=18 June 2018 | page=16}}{{cite news | url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19340925.2.26 | title=Empire bowlers: success of England | date=25 September 1934 | work=The New Zealand Herald | accessdate=18 June 2018 | page=6}} They won four of their nine round-robin matches, finishing in fifth place.
Pollard was elected president of the Carlton Bowling Club in 1933.{{cite news | url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19330526.2.31.8 | title=Bowling: past season at Carlton | date=26 May 1933 | work=The New Zealand Herald | accessdate=18 June 2018 | page=7}}
Death
Carter died in Auckland on 10 September 1963, and he was buried at Purewa Cemetery.{{cite web |url=http://www.purewa.co.nz/view/?id=21103 |title=Burial & cremation details: George Gladstone Pollard |publisher=Purewa Cemetery and Crematorium |accessdate=18 June 2018}} He had been predeceased by his wife, Nellie, in 1950.{{cite web |url=http://www.purewa.co.nz/view/?id=29154 |title=Burial & cremation details: Ellen Oliver Pollard |publisher=Purewa Cemetery and Crematorium |accessdate=18 June 2018}}
References
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External links
- [https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NA19340914.2.70.2 Photograph of George Pollard 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:Bowls players from Auckland
Category:New Zealand male bowls players
Category:Bowls players at the 1934 British Empire Games