To Our Team

To the New Zealand World Championship Team,

All the best for Turkey, play your hearts out, represent New Zealand with dignity and have a great experience.

Also, best wishes for an enjoyable and smooth running trip to Lorraine Brock (manager), John Targett (coach) and Joanne Lippard (supporter) - hope you all have a wonderful time.

Liz Rocks

HAWKE’S BAY CLASSIC RESULTS

Trophy

1st Maurice Belz Bayview and Ron Sandilands Cockle Bay
2nd Denise Bavidge Bayview and Geoff Greer Bayview
3rd John de Gueldre Tauranga and David Bosley Napier Club
4th Lee Tafford Bayview and Ian Baker Herne Bay
5th Christine Strichen Wanganui East and Shirley Selwyn Wanganui East
6th Dean Norman Windy Hills and Claire Wilson Masterton
7th Barb Lucas Napier Club and Barb Johnston Masterton
8th Sharon Cannon Bayview and Murray Porter Bayview

From left to right. David Bosley President Napier City Petanque club presenting the HB Classic Trophy to Maurice Belz and Ron Sandilands.

Plate

9th Ian Hay Napier Club and Ralph Priddle Masterton
10th Richard Turfrey Wanganui East and Pete Hamilton Wanganui East
11th Robert and Sue Wilson HB Lawn Tennis
12th Gordon Ogden Napier Club and Philippa McNiven Napier Club
13th Susan Norman Windy Hills and Joan Miller Masterton
14th Gerard Flaschner Napier Club and Marie Fenton Napier Club
15th Eddy King HB Lawn Tennis and John Maxwell Bayview
16th Roberta Campbell Bayview and Arnold Lander Rotorua

Bowl

17th Yvonne Futcher Wanganui East and Dirk Winnie Wellington
18th Graham Morris Masterton and Beth Gardner Bayview
19th Dean Futcher Wanganui East and Sandra Carston Wanganui East
20th Annette and Jim Forrest Tauranga
21st John Hudson and Josie Parkin Tauranga
22nd Julie Chambers Napier Club and Vicky Cox HB Lawn Tennis

Bowl Consolation

23rd Peter Dennett Hataitai and Cliff Wood (Hataitai ?)
24th Brian Futcher Wanganui East and Krissy Dinnis Wanganui East
25th Peter Sutherland Napier Club and Olive Wright Napier Club
26th Val Nicholson Napier Club and Bill Billing Napier Club
27th Chryssa and Allan Munroe (both) Wanganui East
28th Pam Nicholson Napier Club and Pam Fuller Napier Club

National Championships

I am contacting you on behalf of the Horowhenua Petanque Club Committee (I am not a member) to try and get as wide a distribution as possible for the attached paper (see link at end of this post).

The paper is self-explanatory. It deals with a decision by the PNZ Board to only run National tournaments at the 3 main centres – Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. The Board has even made a decision on the clubs in each region at which these tournaments will be run. In the case of the our region, the WPA, the clubs chosen are – Park Avenue and Kapiti. The criteria used to select these clubs are “Cost and Accessibility”. Even a cursory glance will tell you that there is little or no difference in cost of travel etc and accessibility between several clubs in the WPA, such as Manawatu, Horowhenua, Otaki and Kapiti/Park Avenue.

If you further look at facilities at the clubs you find that clubs such as Horowhenua and Manawatu win hands down in terms of clubhouse, toilets etc.

We are not asking for any special favours in this. All we are asking for is a level playing field in which we can bid for nationals (or even internationals) on our merits, and we dislike the draconian method of decision making by the Board which has not consulted us or our Regional Association.

Kind Regards,
Bryan Wells on behalf of the Horowhenua Petanque Club Committee.

Go to Paper

Oceania Championships Report

The Oceania Championships 2010 … a report from the Coach.
Six nations with one goal … to win the Oceania Championship.
Tahiti, Australia, New Zealand, Wallis & Fetuna, Vanuatu and hosts New Caledonia came together to compete for the title in Noumea on a terrain that was flat, hard and super quick like the Christchurch Petanque Club terrain in mid summer. Read more>>

New Zealand South Island Singles

Sat 2nd / Sun 3rd October.
At the St Kilda Petanque Club. 33 Royal Crescent Dunedin.
Download entry for here
St Kilda welcomes you and hopes you will have an enjoyable two days.

Oceania Championships

I am using twitter to provide any news that comes my way. Two items up already. Great stuff and well done. Go well New Zealand!