March 2018

The club café will be cooking a breakfast buffet for you early birds who’ll be up early to watch the Parker fight! Tickets are available now, at the club office for $15. Tickets include choice of 1 drink (tap beer, juice/post, house wine) Walk-ins welcome but only ticket holders receive beverage deal.

Tickets are limited to 100

PRESIDENT’S CORNER Hello Members, February is gone already, and it seems to have taken the too hot weather with it. Cricket has been exciting but very inconsistent by the Blackcaps. Some will be pleased to see the Super Rugby back on our screens. It’s been a good start to the season for both South Island Teams. There are a couple promotions going at the moment; in the Club Café we’ve restarted the Lionel Richie promo now that a new date has been set for his show. Any prior entries have been included into the draw box. In conjunction with Lion breweries, we will be giving away 5 Double Passes to the popular Foster & Allen concert at the Issac Theatre Royal in April. We celebrate St Patricks Day on Friday 16th & Saturday 17th of March this year. The club will feature Irish Café specials, Guinness cans & Jameson RTD’s and good music in the Westview Lounge. We look forward to seeing everyone in their festive attire! We will be showing the upcoming Parker fight on April 1st, and because of its early start time have decided to offer a breakfast buffet for a very reasonable $15. You can get your ticket at the office now. Due to it also being Easter weekend, we may even have a few baskets to add to our usual raffles. Regards, Kevin Cole

Tuesday to Sunday approx. 4pm – 6pm Saturday approx. 11:30 – 1pm

$2 per ticket Great value for everyone

EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT

When there are 5 Fridays in the month, Crack the Cube will be replaced in the 5th week with 5 x $100 draws

MEMBER’S CARD LUCKY DRAW

TUE – WED – THU 2 draws – each winner gets

$100 onto their card Register personally at Reception by 6pm

Prize Draw approx. 6:10pm You must be here to win!

LOSING TAB TICKETS Put your membership number of the back of your losing TAB tickets and placed them in the tin below next to the TAB Self Service Terminals – one ticket drawn at 12 noon every Saturday – the lucky winner gets $50 worth of Easybet tickets

HAPPY HOURS MON – THURS NOON – 1PM 5PM – 6:30PM $1 OFF BEER JUGS

Did you know there are discounts available at some vendors just for being a club member?

You can save money at places like VTNZ, Liquor King, Assure Accommodation and more……

Check out the Clubs NZ Member Market Place

Kathleen G took home a heavy

purse this month with her winnings from February’s Crack the Cube

ALLSPORTS

Hello everyone- Our AGM will be held on the 9th April. Please note there will be NO monthly meeting on the 2nd of April. Just an early heads up for our 2018 programme; Les Griffiths Friday 11th May Dumbo Hampton Friday 13th July Alan Cole Sunday 5th August Tops Driving Academy Friday 24th August Dick Bain Friday 28th September Please put these dates in your calendar. We look forward to seeing you there.

Cheers, Darren Smith – Allsports chairperson

CARDS Hi to everyone- Our Euchre Card Section nights are back into full swing for the year. We started off with our opening social BBQ night with a very tasty meal. Then we played a few games of bingo/housie, which everyone enjoyed. Any winning lines got a cake or chocolate, a house would take a meat tray! To finish off we had a few quick fire games of euchre. Something different for our opening night again this year.

The next week was normal euchre night and 3rd week was our annual Eric Pycroft Trophy night (Men vs Ladies). We had 50 members playing with supper to finish off the social fun night. And shall we say, that the men took the trophy title again, 308 compared to 280 for ladies. Well done men! Now back to normal Thursday night

Euchre nights, upstairs in the Function Room, starting at 7.30pm. On Saturday 10th March, we will be having a section 6 handed tournament. Please check our card notice board for details.

We also have a team of 8 players travelling up to Blenheim to play in the Clubs NZ South Island Euchre Tournament on Sunday 4th March. We have a few hours travel inland to maybe practice on the way. Any new members please feel free to come and join in for a couple of nights if you wish for a start. Thursday nights at 7.30pm. Regards, Lorraine Cole

CRIB It has been great to welcome back all our players for 2018. The tables were full with 36 players on the first night back. The cards have been competitive which makes for an enjoyable Wednesday night. We are holding the New Zealand National Champs at Hornby in April with a large number of our players committing to play in this Tournament. This is encouraging and shows our weekly competition is providing our players confidence to flourish at this level. Good luck to you all and we look forward to some great results. During February we hosted a Crib Pairs tournament for members from all the Christchurch Clubs. 68 Players again showed their abilities around the Crib board. Well done to our Friends at Papanui for claiming 1st prize with a marvellous 32 points. 2nd went to Marie and Derek on 31 points with 3rd to Ann and James on 30 points, both locals. Finally thanks to Rose and her Team for arranging all our raffles, the Wednesday’s downstairs and upstairs raffle and the Friday night Scratches, which is fundraising to help host the NZ Nationals. The support we receive from you all is fantastic and really makes a difference to our section. We wish you good luck and thank you all! All the best - The Cribbage Crew

DARTS

It’s time for the 50th South Island champs. Hornby held the first championship right here in the old back bar and now we travel to Oamaru 50 years on. 28th of Feb is the mixed pairs. The 1st of March is the Ladies and Mens pairs, and Friday 2nd is the Ladies singles. Saturday has the Mens singles followed by the presentation; we currently hold the mixed & aggregate trophies and look forward to maybe holding on to them. If anyone wants to play Darts this winter, they should contact the darts section ASAP, ask for Maata or JP.

Yours at tops – John Poole

GOLF

The club recently sponsored a team entry to the Legends of Golf Pro Am held at Russley Club. Brent Mackey, Matt Lernihan, & Tony Voice happily

enjoyed a morning tee off, and even met Melbourne Australian Pro, Ben Jackson. The guys would like to thank the club for a great day.

All the best, Steve

OUTDOOR BOWLS The February bowls section match was played at Bowls Hornby with a theme of “State of Origin”. The weather was great, but a wee bit windy, the green run very well and the added colour of the player’s strips made an enjoyable day for all. Once again we thank Bowls Hornby for the use of their excellent facilities. After the two games we had two, two winners with the John Bowley skipped team, Fay Pedersen, Frances Streetley and Ian Smith winning by points difference over Dick Wragg’s skipped team, John Cowan, Lois Cowan and Leona Williams. Our next game is at Bowls Hornby - report at 12 noon, 25th of March. We are always looking for new members, contact numbers and section information on upcoming games can be found on our notice board in the main bar of the Club.

Robin Leary - Chairperson

MIDWEEK BOWLS After a very successful 2017, the New Year has rolled off to a very pleasing start. We opened again on 16 January with a very good number of players and supporters for the first day. We held a BBQ on 27 February, and other activities such as mystery trips and fun days will take place during the year.

Our policy has always been “friendly bowls” and that’s our objective for the coming year. New members are always welcome.

Regards, Tony McBride

FISHING Well here we are at the start of autumn, where did our summer go? Alas, the summer we did have was not kind to the trout and salmon fishers, with the seemingly continual high temperatures (water temp above 70F in Benmore over the past weeks) taking the fish very low in the lakes and high winds making conditions unpleasant for boat fishing and darn near impossible for fly-fishing. However, members I have talked to have reported some good catches of trout and landlocked salmon. On the horizon we have the South Island Clubs NZ Trout Tournament, being run by the Cromwell Club, coming up over the weekend of March 23rd & 24th. Also don’t forget the Jack Elcock @ Lake Brunner on the 13th & 14th of April. Would all section members and intending members please pencil our AGM date, 18th April, in your diaries. Don’t forget that our meetings are held on the first Wednesday of the month at the Club, all Club member are welcome to come along. Tight Lines- Denys Street

TABLE TENNIS NEW ZEALAND MASTERS GAMES 2018

Table tennis was held at Edgar Centre in Dunedin from 3rd to 6th of February. Club members Alan & Helen Law and Malcolm Campion compete with great success in respective age group sections playing Singles, Doubles and Mixed Doubles.

Helen Law 6 Gold Medals * 2 Silver Medals * 1 Bronze Medal

Alan Law 3 Gold Medals * 6 Silver Medals

Malcolm Campion 4 Gold Medals * 3 Silver Medals

Social Table Tennis is held every Tuesday morning (10am-12pm) in the Sports Hall and Competition is held every alternate Tuesday evenings (7pm-10pm)

New Members are welcome to join us for a lovely morning and evening!

Regards, John

TRAVEL

Race and Gala day at Hurunui

This was a very well supported day, with 40 people attending. It was a great day out, and full credit to the organisers of this event. A big thank you has been extended to them, for looking out for us, by responding to request for cover with the fabulous gazebo that had enough room for almost all to sit inside. The generous help from Kevin and board members in supplying us with tables, ice and general help was also much appreciated. The day was fun, with trotting, galloping races including Clydesdales. Horse racing for the young ones as well, along with tug of war and just general fun events. Excellent food stalls and bars available, although I think most of ours decided to BYO.

Next events

Well after months of planning, Napier is now just around the corner. When this goes to print it will be just over two weeks until 23 of us depart. For those of you attending you should have all received your itineraries by now. I am holding the airline tickets to enable the group booking, but the suitcase labels all have to be sorted so please ensure you are no later than 8am to meet at the check in foyer at airport. The check in luggage allowance is 23kg with hand luggage 7kg. If any of you have any questions at all please do not hesitate to call me.

Wednesday, April 18th 2018 A booking has been made to visit the Kate Valley Landfill in Hurunui area. One of the employees at the Landfill will board our coach and explain how the landfill and recycling works. This will be followed by a presentation. We will then have lunch at the Waipara Springs vineyard with tastings, followed by further tastings at Waipara Hills vineyard. This is still in the planning stage so no cost available yet, but keep an eye on the notice board. Next meeting in the Alpine Room 7pm Monday 19th March Warm regards, Lyn Wright

Auction Items To Date:

• Signed Steven Curry NBA Singlet • Weekend in Queenstown • Panasonic “58 TV • Weekend in Fox Glacier • BBQ & Outdoor Furniture • Signed 2017 All Blacks Jersey • Home security package • Signed 2018 Crusaders Jersey • Akaroa getaway • Year supply of pizza • Year supply of beer • Weekend in Hokitika • Groceries from New World • Ken Nysee painting • Signed 2017/18 Black Caps bat • Paslode Nail Gun

A huge thank you to those that helped at our Old Timers Christmas Party back in December. You made our club proud & seeing you work as a team was really great. Seeing the smile on all the oldies makes it really worthwhile. If it was your first time or you are a regular helper, we hope to see you back next year! Once again, many thanks. Terry McCallum – Old Timers Convenor

Old Timers Christmas Party

Sports Section Chairpersons

Section Chairperson Contact All Sports Darren Smith 027-388-9030 Billiards/Snooker Geoff Baldwin 03-942-2982 Cards (Euchre) Diane Heath 03-349-2455 Cribbage Diane Heath 03-349-2455 Cricket Sam Walker 027-825-4939 Darts Wendy Gibb 03-942-2395 Fishing Denys Street 03-349-5142 Golf Steve Stevens 03-344-6332 Indoor Bowls David Bullock 03-980-8667 Midweek Bowls Tony McBride 03-322-8803 Outdoor Bowls Robin Leary 03-349-9390 Pool Paul Morris 03-338-6513 Table Tennis Michael Hills 027-231-8356 Travel Lyn Wright 021-507-671

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Sat 3rd 4:30 Reminisce with Anthony 8:00 Medium Rare

Fri 4th 1:30 Richie Venus & The Busker $5

Fri 9th 8:00 Ryan Neville & The Midnight Blues $22

Sat 10th 4:30 Barross 8:00 Little City Duo

Fri 16th 7:00 Robbie Drew

Sat 17th

3:30 Norm Bland 7:00 Boru

Sat 24th 4:30 Pat Kearns 8:00 Ian Mac

Sat 25th 1:30 Annette’s Heart of Country $5

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