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I hope you have all enjoyed your
Petanque games over the last
year. It is with pleasure that I
report on the NZPA Committee’s
activities over this period.
After the last AGM a number of
issues were highlighted by the
committee as being important to
address.
The first was the Financial
Year. So that full reports could
be made to the AGM at Easter the
Financial Year will from this
year on, run to December 31. It
was also apparent that the
current constitution was not
adequate for a growing national
sporting body. The long term aim
of the NZ Petanque Association
is to promote the formation of
five regional associations, each
with a number of member clubs.
The voting structure of the NZPA
could then change from
individual membership and voting
rights, to club membership and
voting. Unfortunately it is not
possible to introduce this
structure now, as an
incorporated society such as
ours cannot have unincorporated
clubs as members. Most petanque
clubs in New Zealand are
currently unincorporated.
Diane Findlay
and Ivan Hansen have both put a
lot of work into the new
constitution. The constitution
that we put to this AGM is a set
of Rules that remedies
deficiencies in the current
constitution. It also ensures
better regional representation
on the NZPA committee. It could
be viewed as an interim
constitution until we are able
to meet the criteria for our
long term goal of club
membership.
Many thanks to all our members
around the country who helped
with our major fundraising
raffle. This raised over $6000
which the association used for
overseas teams competitions and
training.
I’m sure you would all agree
that Brenda Dykes has done a
great job as editor of the
newsletter/magazine ‘Petanque
New Zealand’. It is a bonus for
our members to get a newsletter
of such quality, with news of
petanque around the country and
overseas.
Brian Smith has assisted us by
compiling tournament results
into national and regional
players’ seeding. This seeding
assists tournament organizers to
prepare their tournament
seeding. It will also help the
committee selecting teams to go
to the Oceania Championships
hosted by Tahiti in October 2000
and for the Women’s World Champs
in France.
Our national tournaments have
once again been a success with
the Christchurch Club hosting
the Singles and the Wellington
Petanque Association the
Doubles. The committee has also
agreed on future National
tournaments well in advance,
with Wellington hosting the
Singles in October, Christchurch
the Doubles in November and
Rotorua the Triples in Easter
2001.
I hope the incoming committee
continues this trend, and if
your club or region would like
to host a national tournament,
you should put your expression
of interest to the new committee
as soon as possible.
Finally I’d like to thank the
Hillary Commission for their
support over the last year, and
also our major tournament
sponsor Peugeot. The NZPA looks
forward to continuing working
with you.
Christian Fouquet
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