Alan Turner Awarded QSM

Alan CelebratesYes - it's true. There is an award for Services to Bridge and Tauranga's Alan Turner has been officially acknowledged. Full coverage is given on the Tauranga site.

It's pretty quiet this time of year but there is a sense of anticipation about several things as we look forward to the start of the new season. Amongst other things:

• NZB will be releasing the new ratings for 2018 any day now
• Summer bridge starts up at several clubs -
  • The Hamilton club has Holiday Bridge sessions on Tuesday and Thursday evenings (7pm start) and Friday mornings (10am start) from 8th January.
  • The Waikato club is open to all on Monday nights 8th, 15th, 22nd January.
  • Mount Maunganui plays the same Mondays and Wednesdays of those weeks in January - 7pm start.
  • Tauranga's sessions are too numerous to list here but may be easily found on the Tauranga site.
  • Rotorua holds summer bridge through January on Monday afternoons and Wednesday evenings starting Monday 8th January.
  • Te Aroha holds summer bridge through January on Tuesday evenings and Friday afternoons.
  • Thames has sessions on Wednesdays 1pm in January
• The Canberra Festival of Bridge begins on the 10th January
• The Thames Summer Festival of Bridge starts on 12th January.
• New committees are ready to start their good works with at least one club, Cambridge, having its opening night on 10th January
• Allan Josephs presents two directing seminars on 3rd and 4th of February - sign up now
• The Gold Coast Congress begins on the 16th of February
• Jane Stearns will begin presenting her Nesting Pairs course in early March - read about it on the Putaruru site

Aug 2015 to Jan 2018It is with concern that we note a certain flattening of the peaks in numbers of registered bridge players over the November-December period when they have been at their highest there for the last two years. Check out the monthly snapshots on this site. We look forward to observing the effect of the new RBM scheme put in place recently.