James Pirret
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At the 1950 British Empire Games in Auckland he won the men's singles gold medal.[1][2] In 1954 at the next British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver he won the silver medal in the men's singles.[3] Pirret competed in the men's singles at his third consecutive British Empire and Commonwealth Games in 1958 at Cardiff, finishing in sixth place.[4]
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.[5]
Pirret died on 4 December 1976, and his ashes were buried at Tuakau Cemetery.[6]
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