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Letter #7 from The Chair of NZB

Submitted by sitemaster on Tue, 2018/06/19 - 3:26pm

Allan Morris keeps us up to date with news from NZB. Click here to download a summary of recent happenings.

Innovative Inter-Club

Submitted by sitemaster on Tue, 2018/06/19 - 9:32am

TrophyTrophyThe Tauranga and Cambridge clubs are about to face off in a novel cross-Kaimai competition dubbed The Great Boat Race. Wednesday nights at both clubs are of a similar nature - sociable with a fair turn-out of newer players. Both use Compass scoring which has the facility to produce competition results using players' scores from X-Clubs. By combining up the weekly club comp ladders from each club a remote inter-club event becomes possible. Perhaps this idea will catch on with other Compass clubs.

The Great Boat RaceThe Great Boat Race

OMOKOROA’s Recipe for Success.

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 2018/06/03 - 3:34pm

Omokoroa's LearnersOmokoroa's Learners• Take one happy friendly Bridge Club whose numbers, due to their average age, are sadly slowly declining.
• Take 34 Players wanting to keep their Bridge Club alive.
• Have a keen Captain and Committee ready to try anything.
• Take all members of the club getting behind their leaders and ready to give them support.
• Add Jane Stearns “How to Rejuvenate a Bridge Club”.
• Add a dash of NZB support and W/Bays RBM

What's been happening recently out there in our clubs?

Submitted by sitemaster on Tue, 2018/05/29 - 10:23am

Apart from the usual plethora of localised celebrations of the successes of various players in club competitions we have:

The annual round of lessons in most clubs is coming to an end. Star performer this year has to have been the Omokoroa club who, like the kiwi, have hatched an egg almost as big as itself. They started the year with 35 full members and 5 affiliates. Working to prescription with Regional Bridge Mate Eunice Eccles they attracted 27!! beginners of whom 24 ran the course of lessons and 22 will likely join the club. A HUGE success story!

Good Works at the Settlement Centre

Submitted by sitemaster on Wed, 2018/05/23 - 7:51pm

Isn't it totally amazing how much some people can accomplish? Not only is Jane Stearns devoting four whole days a week to her responsibilities as a board member of NZ Bridge but she has been taking on the tuition of migrants and refugees at the Settlement Centre in Hamilton.

Congratulations to Waikato Bay’s winners in the Inter-Provincial Trials.

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2018/05/22 - 10:00pm

Intermediate IP TeamIntermediate IP TeamThroughout New Zealand last weekend, keen Bridge players were competing for the honour of playing for their Region in the Inter-Provincial Teams, a national competition which will be held in November in Auckland.

The trials to represent our Region were held in Tauranga over two days. Four teams of four players were selected to represent Open, Seniors, Women’s and Intermediate groups.

Letter From The Chair

Submitted by sitemaster on Tue, 2018/05/22 - 1:37pm

21 May 2018
Welcome and I hope everyone is getting plenty of enjoyment from their bridge.
I am regularly asked as to the well-being of Alan Dormer. I caught up with him about a week ago. He is feeling better but does have off days, like we all do.

Juniors at Matamata

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 2018/05/07 - 10:03am

Angela & MikeAngela & MikeA great day was had by all at Matamata in the second round of the Waikato-Bays Junior Junior Championship League. Fourteen pairs from across the Region competed, with many achieving success in different sessions. In the morning session, it was Moira Lagalula with June Zhu from Te Aroha, and Megan Jolly and Janice Wilson of Hamilton who took the honours. In the afternoon session, Megan and Janice repeated their success and Mike and Angela Newton from Tauranga had an excellent second session to win, playing EW.

Mike and Angela now lead the ladder closely followed by Megan and Janice, with many pairs still in contention for the prizes.

Exciting day for the Ladies at Hamilton

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 2018/05/02 - 11:28am

A close finish in the Hamilton club's Ladies Open resulted in joint first for Judy McLeod and Judith Malcolm of Tauranga and Kathy Yule and Lesley Quilty of Matamata.
Gillian Corbett of Hamilton and Linda Lin of Waikato took third place.

Cambridge ladies had excellent results, winning both both the Intermediate and Novice tournaments. Pam Hall and Kay Dixon won the Intermediates, closely followed by Liz Clayton and Ayako Imahashi and Ruth Van Praagh and Dayelle Cole in second and third places respectively. Barb Wilson and Lesley Roberts scored a great 75% to win the Novice section.

WB Interprovincial Trials

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2018/04/24 - 3:09pm

Hi All

Thank you to those who have already entered.

For all the others, only a couple of weeks before the entry to the IP Trials closes.
Let's try to get our best provincial players together and fight it out in a full room at Tauranga.

Hope to see you there.

Kind regards

Jan Spaans
Waikato Bays Regional Committee Secretary / Treasurer

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