PHOTO: SIMON SMITH/STUFF – The club sold its upper green in 2016 below value for $300,000, and the police are now looking into it.

Police are investigating the controversial sale of an Auckland lawn bowls club’s upper green.

The Avondale Bowling Club land was sold twice in one day – with a $525,000 price jump – in December 2016.

Gerard Hulst, who was placed in charge of the club by Auckland Bowls in December 2017, said police requested an account of the 2016 sale, which he had provided.

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