Bill O'Neill

William P. O'Neill, born in 1909, was a New Zealand international lawn bowler whose date of death is not recorded in the English Wikipedia article. He competed in the first World Bowls Championship, held in Kyeemagh, New South Wales, Australia, in 1966, and won a gold medal in the fours there with Norm Lash, Ron Buchan and Gordon Jolly. Bowling for the Carlton Bowls Club, he won the fours title at the New Zealand National Bowls Championships in 1954, 1960 and 1963. He is also listed among the bowls players at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, and he was inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame.