Another national title for Whanganui's Belliss

Whanganui's Peter Belliss, left, led his fours team of Richard Girvan, Lance Tasker and Blake Signal to the national fours title on Saturday. Photo/ Deb Couzens

Whanganui's former bowls world champion Peter Belliss has picked up his eighth national title.

The win was part of a successful weekend for the Whanganui contingent in the Heartland Bank National Bowls Championships in Taranaki over the weekend.

Aramoho's Belliss skippered his composite fours team, including Richard Girvan, Blake Signal and Lance Tasker to the title beating Dean Elgar's West End side 23-9 in the final on Saturday morning.

"It was a good team effort. We needed a really good start," Belliss said. "From then they were having to play catch up and we were playing pretty good."

Belliss now has three singles, two pairs, and three fours national titles to his name to go along with three world titles.

"There were some pretty good performances from Whanganui players," Belliss said.

Whanganui success also came form Denise Taylor and Dot Belliss who were runners up in the women's pairs, going down 12-19 to Dale Rayner and Ashleigh Jeffcoat.

After an impressive 21-15 win over Catherine Bien in the semi-final Reen Stratford missed out of the title to Selina Goddard but she did share the consistency award with Dale Rayner.

Other Whanganui successes included Ray Park and Alan Dickson, who made the semi-finals in the men's pairs while Ann Loveridge's fours team, including Marilyn Constantine, Dianne Patterson and Robyn Rintoul also narrowly missed out on a spot in the final.