896 Results for author: Garth Partridge
Bowls North Harbour has lost a great servant, particularly of its match committee, with the passing this week of Norma Klaassen.
Up until recent seasons, despite being into her 80s, Norma was a regular and accurate recorder of centre tournaments and inter-club competitions. She had more than 20 years in this role and ...
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The representative season is about to commence with the Premier, Development and 1-5 teams playing a Quad against on the 4th & 5th of October against Auckland, Bay of Plenty and Northland
A preseason hit-out for the Bowls North Harbour players who are available, has been scheduled for Sunday 28th September at Manly, ...
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John Sakey, a distinguished contributor to the Takapuna Bowling Club, both as a player and in various administrative roles, and much respected throughout the Bowls North Harbour centre, has died, after a lengthy illness, aged 80.
From a background in indoor bowls, John joined Takapuna in 1994 and quickly became one of ...
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Nic Murrell and Eden Murrell-Manu, from Marlborough’s Picton club, gave a brilliant exhibition of draw bowls to win the final national champion of champions event at Tauranga at the weekend.
In Sunday’s final of the mixed pairs 2-4-2 championship they needed only 13 of the 14 ends to beat Paul Selby and Jane Selby ...
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It was a case of so near but not quite far enough for Mairangi Bay’s Sheryl Wellington, Jan Gledhill and Colleen Rice, as North Harbour’s representatives in the national champion of champions triples tournament in Auckland at the weekend. They came agonisingly close to making the women’s post-section, missing out ...
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North Harbour’s representatives, former Black Jack, Wendy Jensen and her partner, Jeni Hart, continued the centre’s disappointing return when the national champion of champion women’s pairs were held at the weekend at Auckland’s New Lynn club.
It was an especially frustrating time for Wendy and Jeni, who entered ...
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Mairangi Bay’s weekly Thursday winter triples tournament will have an extra dimension on August 21, with a special guest of honour in club stalwart and life member, John Miles.
One of the most remarkable characters in the North Harbour centre, John will be celebrating his 100th birthday, even if that momentous ...
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The Bowls North Harbour 2025 2026 season handbook will be published in hardcopy and should be available by opening day on Sunday 7 September.
Here is a link to the DRAFT copy of the handbook, which contains the updated club information and the OPEN events.
Please review this DRAFT and advise of any changes and correcti...
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It was a case again of reflected glory for Bowls North Harbour when the national champion of champion events continued at the weekend with the men’s pairs in Hamilton.
Harbour’s representatives, Browns Bay’s Neil Fisher and Llyod Sinton, won only one of their four qualifying games and so missed out on post-se...
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Clubs will be aware of the pennants competition over the last few years. They had lapsed for a time and following last season's pennants we asked clubs for their views for the continuation of this event. The response was encouraging in that most clubs were in favour of continuing this form of competition and there were ...
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