Leslie Lancelot Macey, known as Lance Macey, was a New Zealand lawn bowls player born in Blenheim on 4 August 1881 who died in Auckland on 28 September 1950. He won the men's pairs gold medal with Walter Denison at the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney. Away from bowls he spent forty years in the Post and Telegraph Department, rising from telegraph messenger in 1897 to Auckland district telegraph engineer, and he was associated with the introduction of automatic telephone exchanges before retiring in 1937. In Auckland he belonged to the Remuera Bowling Club and served it as president, treasurer and secretary.
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was a New Zealand lawn bowls player
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Leslie Lancelot Macey (4 August 1881
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Macey was the son of Henrietta Macey
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who won a gold medal at the 1938 British Empire Games
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was a New Zealand lawn bowls player
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won the men's pairs gold medal alongside Walter Denison
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