Bowls: Peter Belliss tribute tournament concludes tomorrow at Aramoho BC

Peter Belliss.

Rain has put a bit of a dampener on proceedings this afternoon, but the Ryman Healthcare Peter Belliss tribute tournament should complete its finals tomorrow.

Belliss and his triples team of brother John Bellis and Norm Scott-Morrison have made it through to post section play today, as did the current Black Jacks Development team, as Bowls NZ sent two squads to take part.

There were two games played before the bowlers had to come off at the Aramoho and Gonville bowling clubs for rain, with two more games set to be played to find the finalists.

Aramoho BC will host the finals at 12.30pm tomorrow.

The tribute tournament is to celebrate the 50 years that Peter Belliss has been playing the sport, having started in 1969 at Aramoho as a 17-year-old.

In that time he won countless club, Bowls Wanganui centre, and national titles.

Belliss won Commonwealth bronze medals at the 1994 Victoria games (men's fours) and 1982 Brisbane games (singles).

He won World Championship gold in 1984 (singles), 1988 (doubles) and 2000 (triples).

Belliss was inducted into the Whanganui Sports Hall of Fame in 2008, and in 2013 was an inaugural inductee into the Bowls NZ Hall of Fame.

Multiple time New Zealand representatives and national champions have all entered the tournament to honour the local legend.

A gala dinner is also being held at Aramoho BC tonight.