Results from Birkenhead

The Birkenhead club completed its two major invitation pairs tournaments at the weekend, with a successful staging of the Good Home women’s event.  Bowlers for both events came from a wide spread of top bowlers from most northern centres, with Amy Cheung and Paul Kempthorne from Auckland’s St Heliers club, winning ... More

Results – The Grove Orewa, BNH Men’s Fours Championship – 8 & 9 February 2025

Takapuna’s strong representation, six combinations among the entry of 24, was rewarded when one of its teams impressively won The Grove Orewa BNH men’s fours championships at the weekend. In the final at Takapuna. the host club’s Graham Skellern-skipped four of Brent Malcolm at three, Bob Telfer at two and Brett ... More

Results – Milford 5000 Sat 25 & Sun 26 January 2025

The Milford 5000 was completed over the weekend, with a very successful result for North Harbour teams. The event was supported by the Sponsorship of: Harcourts Cooper & Co, Gavin Roberts Team Poynton Retirement Village Chemist Warehouse The field of 32 teams came from Northland, North Harbour, Auckland, and Bay ... More

BNZ Summerset 2025 National Men’s Singles & Women’s Pairs & Disability Pairs Report

 Several bowlers from North Harbour clubs acquitted themselves with distinction in making the qualifying rounds of the men’s singles and the women’s pairs when the Summerset national championships concluded on January 9 at host club, Browns Bay Bowling Club.  But despite these worthy efforts it was largely lean ... More

BNZ Summerset 2025 National Women’s Singles & Men’s Pairs & Disability Singles report.

   It was another frustrating loss for the best performed North Harbour player in the 2025 Bowls New Zealand Summerset Nationals, Bowls North Harbour’s Wendy Jensen, when she went down 21-17 to Waikato’s Debbie White in the women’s singles final at Browns Bay yesterday.  But in making the final Wendy achieved a ... More

The Battle of the Bridge – 1 December 2024

North Harbour, both in the men’s and women’s open contests, enjoyed a double success over its Auckland opponents when the 2024 version of the Battle of the Bridge was held at the Howick club on Sunday.  But unfortunately, their excellent efforts weren’t enough to give Harbour the overall honours, with both the ... More

Milika Nathan – World Champion

 Millie Nathan, one of North Harbour’s most popular bowlers, achieved the greatest prize of her relatively brief career by winning the women’s world champion of champions title on Saturday at the waterlogged greens of Browns Bay. The Birkenhead club member representing Tonga, the small island nation for which she ... More

The Grove Orewa Men’s Singles & The Grove Orewa Women’s Pairs

The relative ease with which Helensville’s Bart Robertson and Takapuna’s Lisa Dickson and Lauren Mills won their respective finals in the two The Grove Orewa Bowls North Harbour championships at Mairangi Bay at the weekend rather belied some of the earlier struggles they had had, especially in Sunday’s post-section ... More

Report – The Grove Orewa Men’s Centre Pairs – 16th & 17th November 2024

Takapuna’s Walter Howden and Murray Mathison each achieved their North Harbour gold stars when winning the centre’s Grove Orewa men’s championship pairs at the weekend. In Sunday’s final, played at Birkenhead, in conditions made difficult by a nasty wind, they beat the strong and vastly experienced Riverhead ... More

Report – The Grove Orewa Women’s Singles – 16th & 17th November 2024

  It was a reversal of roles for both finalists, Mairangi Bay’s Theresa Rogers and Manly’s Judy Smith, when the North Harbour women’s singles title was decided at Birkenhead at the weekend.  Theresa, one of the centre’s most consistent women’s players over the past decade, won 21-18 to add to the 10 centre ... More