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The club final of the Grant’s Corner-to-Corner was played on Tuesday afternoon with our five weekly winners – Liz, Alice, Omeka, Jimmy and Paul – playing off in a three end final. After the five had played their two bowls on the first end Liz had let the girl’s side down by failing to get…

  Dave Scrivener (s) Bill Celland, Roy Dickson and Grahame Law have made the final of the Centre Men’s Fours, playing against a Central Levin Team. Several club supporters made the trip to experience a great game with Dave Scrivener’s team leading until they dropped a five with three ends to go.  Needing three points on the…

The second weekend of the National Interclub competition saw our Women’s teams complete a days play on Saturday but the Men’s competition was rained out part way through play on Sunday. Results for our club were as follows: Women (Saturday) Super 7’s :        Won 2 of their 6 games – 1 singles and 1 fours…

On Sunday 30 November Paul Gardner and Rob Cotter won their way through to the final of the Men’s Singles Championship. Neither Paul nor Rob has won the event before so there will be a new name on the Honours Board for this season. The final will be played on Saturday 6 December in the…

Tuesday 2 December saw two strong Levin fours teams travel to Waikanae B C for the annual Leila Secker fours event. Our teams were: Team 1 :   Dianne Short (s), Hazel Rose, Alice Spicer and Diana McGill Team 2:   Bronwyn McMahon (s), Barbara Selley,  Liz Galloway and Margaret Lowndes. The teams enjoyed the tournament with…

On Monday 1 December a fours team of the club’s ‘workers‘ went down to Raumati South B C to play in the annual Mexted Cup tournament. The team was made up of Shoota Ballinger (s), Jim Bagnall, Trevor Turnbull and Ken Hayward. Conditions were mixed with cool gusty winds but there was some sunshine to…

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  After being married for 48 years, a wife asked her husband to describe her. He looked at her for a while, then said, “you’re an alphabet wife… A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K.” She asks, “what the hell does that mean?” He said, “Adorable, Beautiful, Cute, Delightful, Elegant, Fabulous, Gorgeous, and…

  How important is that lead in your pencil.

Tonight was the first night for the Grant’s Corner-to-Corner competition for club members. Sixteen keen members were there ready to go at 5 pm. Alice arrived very soon after and Shoota (of course) and Debbie hurried in. Well, not too late. The big race at Addington was temporarily forgotten. Terror to Love would have to…