Hamilton Bridge Club - October 6 to 9th 2024

Thank you Richard for a job done well !
Due to a large amount of work by Richard Wagstaff the Bridge Club now has new carpet in both playing rooms.
Thanks to the ladies - Helen Rinaldi, Laura Sommerville, Cathy Nolen and Karen Harris who advised Richard and kept him on the "straight and narrow" on the most important requirements for the carpet - the type/style and then the colour and design for the new carpet.
Thanks to everyone including those unmentioned helpers who removed the old carpet for their hard work !!

As for the carpet - approx. 350sq/m in size and 47 years young being installed in 1978. The carpet has NOT been dumped - the best of it has been reused as carpet with the rest to be used around a property to allow a shelter belt to grow from scratch. Unfortunately the underlay didn't have a new use and will needed to be dumped

( click any of the photos for a larger view )

Megan & Leanne win the NZ Intermediate Teams at Congress

 
Megan and Leanne together with their playing partners Kim Thomas and Kevin Grundy ( from Whangarei ) won the NZ Intermediate Teams at 2024 Congress currently taking place at Mt Maungaunui. With 7 wins out of 8 it was a convincing 20 point win
 

Leanne & Megan were unable to collect their prize at Congress so Barry Jones dropped by Monday to do the honors 1st place 2024 NZ Intermediate Teams Hamilton / Hamilton ( Click on the photo for a larger view )

Another winner !

Mereana & partner Rob Armstrong won Congress Restricted Open Teams
 
Mereana and Rob ( Hastings ) together with their playing partners - Graham Stern and Alan Parkes ( Mt Maunganui ) won the Congress Restricted Open Teams heading home a field of 18 teams

 
Congratulations !!!

 
P.S.
Other Hamilton players success at Congress 2024

3rd Place : Congress Open Matchpoint Swiss Pairs - KAREN HARRIS / BOB HURLEY ( Palmerston North )
2rd Place : NZ Pairs Plate - JEFFREY CHANG - YUZHONG CHEN
2rd Place : Congress Pairs - JENNA GIBBONS - CHRISTINE GIBBONS ( Te Puke )

Continuing...
Qualifiers for the next round of NZ Open Teams - "Round of 16" - ( Out of 58 starting Teams )
4th place : NZ Open Teams Qualifying - FISHER Team ( Blair and Liz )
8th place : NZ Open Teams Qualifying - WILSON Team ( Karen Harris )
11th place : NZ Open Teams Qualifying - JONES Team ( Barry and Jenny )

Well done for Matamata Intermediate Pairs -
Stan Rinaldi & Helen Rinaldi - 1st place

Megan Jolly & Leanne Curry - 3rd place and still in first place in the Waikato - Bays Intermediate League

Mary Girvin & Lois Jones (Waik/Hami) - =6th place

Don MacPherson & Irenee Stewart (Camb/Hami) / (Camb/Hami) - 8th place

Marilyn Webby & Ranjith Cooray - 13th place

 
 
 
 

 

Congratulations to all.....

36 pairs took part in the Matamata Pairs event on 15 September - the 7th of 8 rounds in the Waikato Bays League. Winners were Hamilton's Stan Rinaldi & Helen Rinaldi by a comfortable margin
 
In 3rd place Megan and Leanne consolidated their lead in the Waikato Bays Intermediate League with now a 9 points lead of the final round in Cambridge on 20 September. The junior league does not run a round in September with its 6 and final round being in October - Jiwan Dhaliwal and Bill Barwood still hold 3rd and 5th place in that league

Stan Rinaldi & Helen Rinaldi 1st place Matamata Intermediate Pairs Hamilton / Hamilton ( Click on the photo for a larger view )

Tuesday 7th September -

The Hamilton Bridge Club has announced a SGM for 12.30pm 10 September 2024

The agenda for the meeting has 3 items -

☛ The Club requires a vote from the membership to progress the carpet
  replacement in the O'Neill and Richmond Rooms. The cost exceeds the amount
  threshold for a major transaction thus requiring a vote by the members for
  the project to proceed.

☛ The Club needs approval for its new treasurer (replacement) so they may vote at Committee and AGM meetings.

☛ Should the meeting on 10 September not produce a quorum then the meeting will be re-scheduled at 9.30 Friday.
  13 September 2024

The notice from the Hamilton Bridge Club Committee is available on the notice boards at the Club along with a redacted copy on this website - click here to view
 

Richard Wagstaff
Vice President
28th August 2024
Hamilton Bridge Club

Congratulations -
Irenee and Don - 1st place Tauranga Intermediate Pairs

Leanne and Megan - 5th place in the Tauranga Event lifting them to overall leaders Waikato-Bays Intermediate League

Karen and Mike - 1st place in the 5th round of the 2024 WAPs held in Hamilton

Congratulations to all.....

 

Congratulations to Irenee Stewart ( Cambridge / Hamilton ) and Don McPherson ( Cambridge / Hamilton ) for winning the Tauranga Intermediate Pairs Tournament
To top that they managed to score exactly the same result - 59.46% in both sessions of the event
 

Megan & Leanne ( Hamilton / Hamilton ) didn't score as well in the same event but their 5th place together with their cumulative score after 6 rounds (of 8) puts them out in front in the Waikato Bays Intermediate League with a nice lead....

 

Karen Harris and Mike Curry ( Hamilton / Hamilton ) won both sessions of the Hamilton WAPs - the 5th round of the 2024 event. They were joined in 2nd thru 4th places by Malcolm Smith & Kevin Whyte ( Hamilton / Cambridge ), Megan Jolly & Leanne Curry ( Hamilton / Hamilton ) and Catherine Cameron & Helen Rinaldi ( Hamilton / Hamilton).
 
Overall Lynette and Ian Bond ( Matamata / Matamata ) pipped Catherine Cameron & Helen Rinaldi to win the 2024 Waikato Bay WAPs