George Carter

George Henry Carter (1883 – 1 May 1935) was a New Zealand lawn bowls player who competed for his country at the 1934 British Empire Games. Professionally, he was an accountant and a director of the McKenzies retail chain.

Early life, family, and business activities Carter was born in Australia in about 1883. In 1906, he married Charlotte Ella McKenzie, who, with her brother John, had founded a fancy goods store in Melbourne the previous year. Carter was John McKenzie's accountant, and the store would eventually grow to become the J.R. McKenzie retail chain in New Zealand, with Carter as one of its directors. Carter retired from day-to-day involvement with J.R. McKenzie Ltd in about 1928, while remaining a director of the company, and moved to Auckland. They won four of their nine round-robin matches, finishing in fifth place. His wife, Ella, died in Wellington in 1972.