Maurice Ronald Buchan, known as Ron Buchan, lived from 6 December 1907 to 30 January 2003 and was a New Zealand international lawn bowler. He competed in the first World Bowls Championship, held in 1966 at Kyeemagh in New South Wales, Australia, where he won the gold medal in the fours alongside Norm Lash, Gordon Jolly and Bill O'Neill. At home he bowled for the Tui Park Bowls Club and won the New Zealand national singles title in 1964 and 1965 and the national fours title in 1957. In the 1986 Queen's Birthday Honours he was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to bowling, and in 2013 he was an inaugural inductee into the New Zealand Bowls Hall of Fame. He died in Hamilton in 2003.
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won a gold medal in the fours with Norm Lash, Gordon Jolly
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He won the 1964 and 1965 singles title and the 1957 fours title at the New Zealand National Bowls Championships
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