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

Report – The Grove Orewa Women’s Triples and the Dick Bree Memorial Men’s Triples – 9 & 10 November 2024

The already phenomenal record that Colin Rogan, John Walker and Neil Fisher have in North Harbour bowls grew even further when the Browns Bay trio won the Dick Bree Memorial, Men's championship triples at the weekend.  In Sunday’s final at Takapuna they beat Riverhead’s Billy Fulton, Tony Garelja and Grant Goodwin ... More

Report – Metlifecare NZ Masters 2024

Murray Mathieson was the star of the Bowls North Harbour centre’s 2024 Metlifecare NZ Masters Open which came to a successful conclusion on Friday. Mathieson, who has had an illustrious sporting and bowls career, made the finals of the three disciplines for which he was eligible, and won all three, the Men’s 75+ Pairs, ... More

Quadrangular Report (updated) – Sat 28 & Sun 29 September 2024

 North Harbour’s women’s premier development team gained the centre’s only success in the quadrangular representative series played on Auckland greens at the weekend.  But the overall results were encouraging for Harbour with both the premier men’s and women’s teams coming frustratingly close in finishing ... More