Thursday Improver Lessons - Next Session is 2 May

 
  The next in our series of lessons being run by Cherie skips next Thursday
  as its ANZAC Day ( 25th ) and will resume on the 3rd of May.
 
  The duration of the session has been extended to 1 - 4pm to fit the lesson in....

Intermediate / Junior Teams Championships date changes
 
Principal change is the Championship Teams now starts April 4th
( Thursday after Easter ) running on new dates for the next 5 weeks
 
The reasoning behind this is Numbers for Thursday night have been poor and variable as regards numbers wise this year along with ANZAC day falling on a Thursday.
This makes running a Teams Competition very difficult for the the Director / Partner Steward as Teams requires requires the same numbers for each week of the event. In addition the event needs a reasonable number of Teams to make the event interesting and competitive for the players.
Due to the numbers experienced this year it has been decided to change the event to a Butler Pairs event ( Swiss type scoring like Teams ) starting on April 4. This will allow for greater latitude in the number of players each week as it has no need to be the same as that for the starting week of the competition.
The championships will be held as advertised for both Intermediate and Junior Grades

 
Consequential changes

Due to the changes to the teams dates -

April 4th - May 2nd : Championships Teams held as Butler Pairs - new start time of 7pm from April 11

May 9th - May 23th : changes to Thursday Winter Pairs

May 30th - Jun 13th : changed to Thursday Butler Pairs

 
Hamilton Bridge Match Committee

Welcome to the 2024 Hamilton Bridge Club's Intermediate, Junior and Novice Pairs

Thank you to our Sponsor   

Saturday, 16 March and the Club hosted 14 tables for the Intermediate Pairs and 11 tables in the Junior / Novice Pairs. What a terrific group they were - very few complaints, a very quiet time for the directors, they purchased nearly all the raffle tickets and the majority stayed for the prize giving having first severely dented the bar stock !
Thanks
The Club does want to apologise for a delay at the beginning due to an issue with one set of the boards and later the failure of a printer - it worked the day prior but on the day nothing which caused a delay in printing 1st sessions personal score records
The bridge wasn't bad at all......

The winners were -
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Intermediate Pairs Robin Stevenson & Deirdre Oliver East Coast Bays

Junior Pairs Lyudmyla Watts & Heather Sharp Matamata

Novice Pairs Shirley De Almeida & Tilak De Almeida Waikato

Observant Members will have noticed the Bridge club-rooms building and more importantly the roof and turrets have been restored to a state close to that when the building was constructed in the early seventies.
Richard Wagstaff has been responsible for the project - from the finding of a suitable contractor, writing the grants to obtain the finance and then overseeing the work process - thank you Richard. This project was the repair of the sloping parts of the roof and turrets and then re-coating the Decramastic tiles which cover the sloping roof. Thanks also go to Jol Glyde for the repair and sealing of the flat parts of the roof and and the barge boards edging the roof which was a prerequisite for the turret repair. Together they have refurbished the roof such that the Club should not have any concern about problems for a considerable period.

The Club has to thank the three Charities which together equally contributed three quarters of the cost of the project - WEL Energy Trust, Trust Waikato and Pub Charity Ltd. Without them the the job would be still waiting to commence so many thanks to each of them from a very grateful Bridge Club

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Details on 2024 Lessons updated 1 February
- see the LESSONS TAB above