James Pirret

James Pirret, known as Ham, was a New Zealand lawn bowls player who lived from 22 February 1915 to 4 December 1976. He won the men's singles gold medal at the 1950 British Empire Games in Auckland, then took the silver medal in the men's singles at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver. At his third consecutive Games, in Cardiff in 1958, he finished sixth in the singles. At home he represented the Tuakau Bowling Club and won two New Zealand National Bowls Championships titles: the men's singles in 1957 and the men's pairs in 1958, where he played as skip alongside C. J. Rogers. He died in 1976 and his ashes were buried at Tuakau Cemetery.