Newsletter October 2025
Greetings and welcome to this newsletter.
New Members: We extend a warm welcome to new members: Gloria Teinaki, Trish Croot, John Soffe and Jeffrey Shrimpton. We hope you find companionship and enjoyment within our Club environment. Please make our new members feel welcome.
Playing success: Congratulations to David Weir, Graham Lewis, Wade Brealey and Guy Orr who won the Auckland Year 1-5 Fours title. Also, congratulations to Steve Campbell, Hannah Dawson, Sarah Childs, Chris Hand and Kevin Hooper who played in the post section of recent major tournaments.
On the Club scene, David Weir, Graham Lewis, Wade Brealey and Guy Orr won the year 1-5 Fours, Clair Orr and Sue Carroll won the year 1-5 Women’s Pairs, and Wade Brealey and Graham Lewis who won the Men’s 1-5 Pairs. Thank you to all those who participated in those competitions – we have 17 teams all up – and to those who organised them.
Covered Green: Despite considerable problems with the contractors finding pipes that did not appear. on any plans, the project is making real progress with the foundations all but complete. Our contractors are still hopeful that the cover will be completed by Christmas (this year!)
Uniforms: I am aware the subject of the Club playing shirt is the source of much discussion within the Club. At the last meeting of the executive the following was resolved. “The Club is aware that there have been a few versions of the new uniforms over the last couple of years. The Club acknowledges that Club Members have supported the Club by buying Club uniforms at various stages as the design has evolved. So that no one member is disadvantaged financially, the Club will allow a 2-year transition period for all Club events (including Club Championships)before the current version of the shirt becomes compulsory.” The 2-year period will start from the date of the meeting (16th October 2025). We are, however, unable to overrule both Bowls NZ and Bowls Auckland as to the uniform conditions contained within the various conditions of play. In particular BowlsNZ has a requirement that all members of a team wear the same design shirts, bottoms, jackets and hats.
Major Tournaments: We have two major tournaments being played on our greens in December. On Saturday and Sunday 20 and 21 December there will be a classic Fours tournament playing for the Gordon Smith Trophy. This is an open tournament, and we encourage all members to participate.
December 28-30 our Club is to be headquarters for the Auckland stop on the World Bowls Series, which means we will be hosting all three-days, including the finals day on the 30th. It is to be sponsored by JB Were (used to be called Jardin tournament). The competition format is 2-4-2 and is for mixed pairs. Could I please ask Club members to assist us in running both these tournaments. Not only will you be helping us, but you will see world class bowlers playing on our greens. If you can assist, please leave your name on the list in the Office.
Have a go day. This is to be held on Sunday 9th November between 9.30am and 2.00pm. Our aim is to encourage locals to come and try bowls as a sport. To enable this to happen we request assistance in delivering advertising leaflets in your neighbourhood and attendance on the day to show our visitors how to bowl. Please let me know if you can assist.
Gentle Reminders: If you take cups and glasses onto the greens, please bring them back when you have finished with them. Please do not leave it for other members to clean up after you. Also, if there is no-one on the greens when you leave, could you please put away the equipment and lock the equipment sheds.
To ensure even wear on E green we ask that you play in a Club house to sea direction for coaching, roll ups and practice. Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday tournaments will play on the road to road direction.
Other matters: Much progress has been made in attracting sponsors for tournament days. However, we can accommodate more. If you know of a commercial organisation that may be interested, please contact one of the executive, who will arrange for a follow up discussion. Thanks to all our current sponsors for their ongoing support.Thanks
My grateful thanks to all those who help with the garden, greens, shop sales, food preparation and service, convenors and the myriads of other tasks that get done around the Club. It is only through the efforts of our many volunteers that enables us to function successfully as a premier Bowling Club.
Enjoy your Bowls, Brian
Newsletter September 2025
Greetings and welcome to this newsletter.
New Members:
We extend a warm welcome to new members: Lisa Lee, Carlson Barnett, Penny Yam,
Marilyn Howard, Maegan Lewis, Jackie Talbot, Darrell Muir, Debbie Muir, Janice Calvert,
Stephen Tsui, Sophia Lo, Elly Surmond, Ray Hedgeland, Allan Keane and Robyn Wijnstok
We hope you find companionship and enjoyment within our Club environment.
Please make our new members feel welcome.
Playing success:
It is a Presidents delight to report some outstanding success on the Greens.
The Canoe and Campi competitions for years 1-5 have been completed. The Southeast
teams, with a large Howick contingent were successful with winners and runners up in
both competitions. Thanks, and congratulations to all those who participated. The
future of our Club is in good hands. Special mention must be extended to our coaching
team on a job particularly well done. Thanks to the team.
Covered Greens
We recently held a working bee to prepare D green for the construction. Special thanks
to the 20 or so members who turned out to help on a damp Sunday morning.
The construction team are already to start and will move into action as soon as the final
sign off on the building permit is received.
Our legal documentation has passed Auckland Council scrutiny, and we can proceed
with that. To those who have agreed to loan monies to the Club, I expect we need to
draw down funds in the next week or so. Thank you to those who have already advanced
funds.
A special thanks to a well-known family who have donated a sum to help with the
covers.
Gentle Reminders:
If you take cups and glasses onto the greens, please bring them back when you have
finished with them. Please do not leave it for other members to clean up after you.
Also, if there is no-one on the greens when you leave, could you please put away the
equipment and lock the equipment sheds.To ensure even wear on E green we ask that you play in a Club house to sea direction for
coaching, roll ups and practice. Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday tournaments will play
on the road-to-road direction.
Other matters:
Much progress has been made in attracting sponsors for tournament days. However, we
can accommodate more. If you know of a commercial organisation that may be
interested, please contact one of the executives, who will arrange for a follow up
discussion. Thanks to all our current sponsors for their ongoing support.
My thanks to those who organised our successful social evenings. All those who
attended enjoyed the shows. I can see these types of shows becoming a regular feature
in the future.
Don’t forget the wine tasting on September 20th.
Thanks
My grateful thanks to all those who help with the garden, greens, shop sales, food
preparation and service, convenors and the myriads of other tasks that get done around
the Club. It is only through the efforts of our many volunteers that enables us to function
successfully as a premier Bowling Club.
Enjoy your Bowls.
Brian