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Niau is Number One
The first Air New
Zealand National Singles Championship was held
in Wellington at Easter.
Competition was fierce in the
tournament, expertly and
smoothly run on behalf of the NZPA by Brian Smith, Leon
Crosse, Graeme Millard and
others of the Wellington
Petanque Association. Niau Ruta
won 15 - 11 over Evan Green in
the final.
New Faces on the NZPA Committee
The NZPA’s AGM
was held on Thursday, April 3,
1997 and the following persons
were elected to the Committee:
President: Jorg
Schulze
Vice President:
Noel Hunt
Secretary &
Member of the Executive
Committee FIPJP Cam Calder
Treasurer: Mick
Sharpe
Committee: Gavin
Campbell, Christian Fouquet,
Steve Lawry, Alan Lethbridge
Wellington
Regional Representative: Brian
Smith
Auckland Regional
Reprsentative: Peter de Beer
South Island
Regional Representative: David
Direen
Other useful
contacts:
National Coach:
Christian Fouquet
National Umpire:
Laurent Neuenschwander
As the number of
clubs increases in different
areas more Regional Associations
will form. These will be self
funding, often by means of
running the Regional
Championships and exist to
coordinate club activities in
the region and promote the game
locally. The Regional Secretary
acts as a direct conduit to the
NZPA Committee.
Secretary attends FIPJP
Executive meeting in Nice
Cam Calder
attended meeting as a member
Executive Committee
International Federation.
Discussion was intense because
of the growth in popularity of
the game globally and the
consequent rise in numbers of
teams wishing to compete at the
World Championships it has
become increasingly difficult to
find covered venues of
sufficient size and host
countries to meet the costs of
staging the event.
A number of
strategies were considered and
member countries will have input
into modification of the
existing format of the
Championships.
At time of
writing, no country has offered
to host the 1998 World
Championships. It is hoped that
the eventual revised format will
help make the holding of the
World Championships - an
occasion allowing members of the
greater petanque family to get
together - a more achievable
goal for a greater number of
countries.
Calendar of National Events
In response to
feedback from Association
Members the NZPA committee
decided to hold the National
Triples Championship Competition
later in the summer. The dates
and venues are as follows:
-
Air New
Zealand Open in association
with Peugeot
Venue:
Victoria Park Auckland
Dates:
Saturday November 22 &
Sunday November 23, 1997.
-
Air New
Zealand National Singles in
association with Peugeot
Venue: Mills
Reef, Bethlehem, Tauranga
Dates:
Saturday February 28 &
Sunday March 1, 1998.
(We are
currently awaiting written
confirmation that their
proposed new terrain will be
in place).
-
Air New
Zealand National Triples
Championship in association
with Peugeot
Venue: Napier
Petanque Club. Contact is:
Noel Hunt
Dates: Easter
Weekend - April 98.
NZPA Tournament Committee
The NZPA
Committee has appointed a
Tournament Committee of: Peter De Beer,
Christian Fouquet, Noel Hunt
Their
responsibility is to organise a
format for the three NZPA
administrated National
Tournaments and to organise and
run the tournaments themselves
in association with the host
region or club. In this way the
various events can be held
around the country with full
NZPA support.
Financial donations to NZPA
The NZPA
gratefully acknowledges receipt
of financial contributions from
the Wellington Petanque
Association and the Cockle Bay
Petanque Club. The NZPA will
make small contributions to the
expenses of players to the World
Champs and the delegate to the
two FIPJP Executive Committee
meetings. Herne. Bay Petanque
Club Committee has also voted to
support its members in the NZ
contingent.
Currently,
however, representing NZ as a
player or a delegate demands a
significant financial
contribution from an individual.
The NZPA Committee is aware of
this problem and is committed to
improving the situation. We are
happy to receive any positive
suggestions re funding. It is
likely that the present shared
responsibility for funding
raising between the NZPA, the
selected person and their club
will continue for the time
being. A situation which appears
to pertain across many sporting
codes.
New Zealand Schools Petanque
Association
The New Zealand
Schools Petanque Association is
an Incorporated Society,
affiliated to the NZPA, set up
to promote and foster the game
of petanque in Primary and
Intermediate and High Schools
throughout New Zealand.
Already they have
held successful regional
tournaments in Auckland,
Wellington and Nelson. A teacher
in service tuition in Petanque
Coaching for Teachers in the
greater Auckland area will be
held Wednesday July 30, 1997, on
the Peugeot Terrain, Herne Bay
Petanque Club. Registration by
July 25, 1997 to Cam Calder.
Letter to the Editor
Cam, I thought
you might be interested in the
following information. I believe
the first Intermediate/Secondary
School Petanque challenge took
place on March 17 1997, at the
Buckland Bowling Club Terrain.
Papakura High
School played Pukekohe High
School. ‘The Students’
(Triples) Papakura defeated
Pukekohe 13 - 7. ‘The Students’
(Doubles) Papakura defeated
Pukekohe 13 - 7.
As I belive this
is the first inter Secondary
School ‘Match’ Papakura
are claiming the right to call
themselves National Secondary
School Petanque Champions. Both
Schools are very keen to accept
challenges from other Secondary
Schools (Students and Staff)
Steve Saville
Regional Round Up
Wellington
Greetings
folks!! Hey it’s suppose to
be winter but in Wellington
we seem to be playing more
petanque than we do in the
summer!!!!
May, saw the
start of the WPA Monthly
Interclub Triples League.
This competition has
attracted 22 triples teams
from the various clubs in
the Wellington Region. It’s
a round robin format with
each team playing three
games per month. The league
is due to end in mid
November 1997, with the
playoffs scheduled for the
end of November 1997.
Trophies for the winning
teams have been provided by
Obut.
Since the
beginning of this year the
WPA has organised a series
of encouragement
tournaments. These doubles
tournaments are designed to
attract players who have
just started playing
petanque and want tournament
experience, and also have a
chance to make the final. By
ensuring the experience
players are in the same
pools and the other players
are spread over the
remaining pools, The aim is
to produce a final which has
an experienced double
playing and inexperienced
double.
So far the
two tournaments we have
held, have been an
overwhelming success with
over 40 doubles registering
for each tournament. The
third tournament in this
series is to be held on
Sunday 6th July.
Most of the
clubs have also been very
active. Khandallah and
Kapiti have had training
days.
Upper Hutt
and Masterton have both held
‘melee’ doubles tournaments.
For those of you who are not
familiar with ‘melee’
tournaments, it is a
tournament where players put
their names in a hat,
partners are drawn and a
format decided by the
numbers participating. The
emphasis is on encouraging
people to participate and
enjoy the game of petanque.
Brian Smith
Auckland
Auckland Petanque Association: First meeting
to initiate the APA was held
on the January 21, 1997, at
the Epsom Bowling Club. Six
Auckland Petanque Clubs were
represented as well as the
NZPA by the President, Jorg
Schulze.
The purpose
of the Auckland Petanque
Association would be to
bring about co-operation
between clubs as to dates
etc for events to avoid
clashes and that the
circulation of that and
other information would be
through the NZPA Newsletter
and to members by the
individual clubs.
An inaugural
championship on Waitangi Day
was held which was a great
success with many teams
taking part. The proceeds of
that day was the initial
source of funding.
Could we have
all clubs involved with the
APA suggested tournaments
dates for the year 97/98 by
August 1, 1997, or no later
than August 10, 1997.
Any comments
on interciub competitions
will be gratefully received
as it will be your
competition, re: Playtimes -
Format - Where played -
Scoring - Type of team, etc.
etc. Hope to hear from you
soon. - Peter de Beer,
Representative for the APA
Herne Bay
Petanque Club: The election
of a new committee in April
has seen a flurry of
activity at the club.
Experienced and new players
are welcomed at the club
every Friday evening with
the new BBQ and a game of
Petanque providing an
enjoyable way to unwind at
the end of the working week.
The Air Calm
Winter Series of Nine
Tournaments, the majority of
them with drawn partners is
underway. Individual points
are recorded, and the two
players with the highest
total, (best of five results
only being recorded) win a
holiday in Noumea courtesy
Air Calm and the Herne Bay
Petanque Club.
Two very
enjoyable interciub days
have been held with the
Hibiscus Coast Petanque Club
for a jointly purchased
silver trophy.
After 30
years of supervised neglect
the clubhouse has been
repainted thanks to Mick
Sharpe, Registrar, David
Kyle, Tutor and the Students
of the Painting and
Paperhanging Course, of
Auckland Academy East,
Ellerslie.
Taranaki
Taranaki
Petanque Inc, New Plymouth.
(Terrain at the Egmont Hotel
Bell Block). The club
meets on
Wednesdays, at 1 .00pm. and
Sundays, at 11 .00am.
The month of
April saw the Annual Club
Championships held on
Sunday. 6th (singles) &
Sunday, 20th (doubles) with
Arthur Everett taking out
this years singles title and
Ivy Everett coming runner
up. Arthur & Ivy also gained
the Silver at the N.Z.
Masters Games at Wanganui in
February 1997. The Doubles
title was won by Les Hill &
Rita Jones, with Adam Bunt
and Molly Hammersley a very
close 2nd.
The Taranaki
Masters Games 1997 are on
November 10 and 16, 1997, at
Stratford with petanque
being played on the terrain
in New Plymouth.
The Club has
experienced a healthy
increase in new membership
over the past year due to
the higher profile of
petanque in New Plymouth, so
if you are down our way and
want a friendly game or more
details, please contact Les
Hill.
Dunedin
The Caversham
Petanque Club now has a
membership of over 60
players, and with the mild
winter weather we are still
enjoying playing Sunday
afternoons, and Tuesday
evenings under lights. We
recently finished playing
Club Championships in
singles, doubles and
triples, which was a lot of
fun, even if the same people
kept starring.
A club is now
established at Milton and
clubs are being organised at
Mosgiel and Oamaru so we are
looking forward to some
challenges this summer.
The local
rest homes have shown great
interest with quite a few
games already played and
later in the year they plan
to hold their own
competition. Local schools
have expressed interest
also.
We are
planning on building a
tournament pavilion, but not
sure when this will go
ahead, finances permitting.
Planning is
well underway for the
Masters Games in Dunedin in
February, 1998. We are
hosting the petanque and
hoping for entrants from all
over the country. This will
be a doubles tournament for
30 years and up, play being
on Friday February 6 and
Saturday February 7, 1998.
Entry forms should be out
some time in July - more
information later.
All visitors
to Dunedin are most welcome
to come along, either during
club sessions, or any time
during the week.
Anne
Sinclair
Timaru
From Timaru -
Great news after many years
of effort Peter Spruyt
reports the Timaru Petanque
Club now has its own terrain
and the Timaru District
Council, has budgeted for
another in the Central City
area close to the
railway/bus depot and a
restaurant. This is
excellent news. Contact:
Peter Spruyt
Cam Calder, Secretary NZPA
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