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29-10-2020
CLUB TAMBORINE - HEART OF THE MOUNTAIN
CLUB TAMBORINE - HEART OF THE MOUNTAIN
“After taking possession of the site, the RSL Sub-branch’s Memorial Committee [originally] developed two tennis courts which were opened in 1949 by the Shire Chairman (Cr James Sharp). The tennis club lasted for some years and proved very popular with the Mountain young people. Later, after having had such strong support, it fell away and went into recess.
“During this time, a move to develop the centre for bowls was gaining strong support. The game had been played at the Eagle Heights Hotel, but the group had no green it could call its own. Thinking turned to the Memorial Centre. An outcome was a public meeting on June 10, 1950, when a provisional bowls club was formed.”
When the land was transferred to the Beaudesert Shire Council in 1973, the bowls club was granted a 99-year lease to occupy and manage the facility, and to maintain the memorial aspect of the site. One of the provisions of the lease was that there must be an active bowls club on the site, and that if it should fold or become inactive for two

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