President’s Report
Hi everyone
It is with mixed
emotions that I write this
annual report because it is my
last one not only as President
but also as a committee member
of Petanque NZ.
Nearly 8 years
ago at the Atomic Cafe in
Ponsonby; Auckland I was one of
the original 12 members who
created the then NZPA. That year
I was going to France for a
holiday and met the President of
the International Federation, Mr
Bernard in Nice, who did all the
necessary paperwork to integrate
New Zealand as part of the FIPJP.
One year later I was sent by the
NZPA to our first international
meeting in Brusseles and had the
honour of representing NZ as a
player. I will always treasure
it.
During the past 8
years, I have been to 5 World
Champs and 2 Oceania’s as well
as other international and
national tournaments I have met
hundreds of people both overseas
and NZ and made many friends,
which is what petanque is all
about. My advice is to be
competitive in your games but
keep the friendships and never
say anything about your
opponents or your partners
whether you win or lose.
Of course as in
any new organisation the NZPA/PNZ
has had its fair share of
controversy and even conflicts,
but in the end, thanks to the
dedication of some good people
we have managed to achieve a lot
of positive results which no one
can deny.
Petanque in NZ is
now part of the culture if not
as a sport, at least as an
outdoor recreational game played
by young and old.
We have dose to
50 clubs with approximately 1500
members all over the country.
With the Hillary Commission,
Kiwi Petanque, a proposed
coaching and umpiring programme,
sponsors (Peugeot) along with a
full calendar of regional,
national and international
tournaments, the future is
looking good.
To all the people
who have been unhappy with some
of the things that have occurred
over the years, I would
recommend they get elected onto
the committee. This is the best
opportunity they have to make
changes.
To those who do
not want to work in the
committee of PNZ, I urge you to
be patient and understand that
we are all volunteers trying our
best to please all the members.
If you have a problem or an
idea, put it in writing to PNZ
so they can discuss it at a
meeting rather than bringing up
controversial items at the AGM.
I leave this
year, confident that the next
Committee will do their best and
will get all my support.
I will remain a
fervent member of PNZ and hope
to enjoy many more years of
petanque in NZ. I would like to
thank all the people I worked
with, played with or against,
laughed or cried with, but most
of all I want to thank my wife
Rolinka and my kids Natalie and
Andre for supporting me all
these years in this very time
demanding and financially
draining dream of mine.
See you all on
the terrains - Au revoir!
Christian Fouquet
- NZ President
Southern Region Kiwi Petanque
Report for 2001
Regular weekly
coaching sessions were held
throughout the full school year
culminating with the second
annual Schools’ tournament held
at Caversham on November 13.
There were 46 teams entered this
year, made up as follows:
Secondary 9, Intermediate 7,
Primary 30.
They all played
in one competition, the final
being played between teams from
St Bernadettes and King’s High
School, with the latter running
out the winner. A much higher
standard of play was observed
this year with many close games
being fought out with many
boules placed in close proximity
to the cochonnet.
Nearby schools
utilised most of the coaching
time available in Terms 1, 2 and
3, while Term 4 was made
available for other schools
wanting pre and post tournament
coaching.
Two schools in
the Dunedin area have now put in
their own pistes, while five
others are in the planning
stages. These schools have all
received coaching from members
of the Caversham Club, along
with seven other schools; this
equates to over 8000 man hours
of instruction offered to 1284
pupils.
A day visit was
made by two Caversham coaches to
Duntroon, an inland North Otago
township, where a number of
outlying schools had
concentrated their pupils for
the day. This multi sport event
was organised by Sport Otago
which also provided the
transport and coaches.
Much interest was
shown by staff member of various
schools with a promise to follow
up information on pistes and
equipment. An expanded Kiwi
Petanque coaching course for
teachers was carried out over
three days with 19 teacher
trainees from the Dunedin
College of Education, plus we
carried out Kiwi Petanque
coaching for eight teachers from
the Alexandra and Omakou primary
schools.
An end-of-year
corporate function for staff
members of a local high school
willing be utilised to push home
the message of the benefits of
playing petanque to their
pupils.
We were once
again fortunate in being able to
call upon the services of twenty
of our club members to act as
coaches during school visits,
and we are grateful to such a
large number of will and
enthusiastic members who make
their time and services
available, and that enables us
to run this programme without
any hiccups.
R J Watson - Kiwi
Petanque Convenor
Terry Holt -
Regional Coaching Coordinator
The Avoca Adventure
Do you want to go
to Avoca to play petanque? Some
of the original players asked
can’t make it Who’s playing with
who? That doesn’t matter as long
as ha six players to make up two
triples teams. Where is Avoca?
In Victoria, Australia, about
two hours north into the
mountains and vineyards. Sounds
great There is a triples
tournament in Melbourne the week
before, $7000 worth of prizes.
Don’t have a third and it male
or female Can’t make that one.
So let’s go to Avoca.
Meeting up at
Auckland International Airport,
Ian Baker, Mike Emerson, Terry
Lambert, partner Sue, Bill
Lockwood, wife Eleanor, Sue and
I hopped aboard a Qantas flight
to Melbourne on the Thursday.
The plane was full. One guy
watching a
DVD
on his lap top. Star Wars part
one the Phantom Menace. Haven’t
seen that yet. Sue’s seat was on
the wrong side of the aisle from
what we had specially booked,
after 4 years with a metal hip
it decides to play up.
Six Panadols
later the staff are asked to
find another seat for her
otherwise they are going to have
a major. The guy with the lap
top swaps seats and earns
himself a bottle of wine from
the Air Canada staff at the end
of the journey Still didn’t get
to see Star Wars his battery had
gone flat. Can’t even remember
the flight movie too worried
about where Sue was going to
throw up.
Arrived in
Melbourne 7.00pm and picked up a
nice Tarago seven seater which
only fitted five of us with the
luggage. Eleanor stayed in
Melbourne and Terry and Sue got
a smaller rental for themselves
as they were continuing on
holiday from Avoca. The rental
company did it’s usual thing and
told you the extras for the full
insurance after Michael had
organised it from NZ.
Now an extra $100
for the four days. When she
asked us where we were staying
and we said Avoca she duly
turned to her offsider and asked
her where Avoca was. The mind
boggled, where are we going?
Drove straight
out the Airport and on the
motorway to Ballarat. No
problem, you drive past Ballarat
not through it but as it was
getting dark, food became the
next issue. We drove through a
plum in a poke town, do you know
what I mean, you poke you head
around the corner and you are
plum out of town. Lake Learmont.
Pat and Vin had
these old tearooms which were
past there used by date. Can you
envisage four cables with six
adaptors draped around the wall
to keep everything going. They
cooked us fish and chips and
toasted sandwiches. They closed
at 9.00pm. Needed the business.
We heard the stories, the lake
had dried up. There was no fish
and therefore no fishing
therefore no holiday makers so
life was difficult but we love
it here.
On arriving at
Avoca we discovered it was
originally a gold mining town in
the 1860’s. There were all these
restored buildings and they
survived from the tourist and
wine industry. Fortunately we
had been booked into a Bed and
Breakfast. The lads thought the
old couples would prefer it
there rather than the pub that
was only across the road.
We met our hosts
Carol and Brian who gave us a
tour of their home. It was
actually a two storey brick
building with the bank
downstairs in the front and the
B & B facilities at the back
with 5 double bedrooms upstairs.
They had restored the premises
and let the front to the Bendigo
Bank. “Which room would you
like? The rest aren’t coming
until tomorrow”. “We will have
the big one in the front”.
A town of 1,000
with a main street can’t be that
noisy. Wrong, the pub was
swinging over the road and the
grain trucks were coming
through. Poor Carol she sits up
half the night worrying about it
and then the whistling
competition starts with the
local lads at the other pub at
about 2.00am.
Terry’s Sue found
out the best way to resolve it
was earplugs. Not having stayed
at a B & B before, coming down
the stairs on the Friday morning
to see breakfast laid out was an
event in its self. Freshly
cooked muffins, three cereals to
chose from, homemade caramel
yoghurt, strawberries,
pineapple, melon, followed by
toast, tea, and the big
breakfast, bacon, eggs,
mushrooms, tomatoes and
sausages.
Absolutely
wonderful if this is what you
stay at a B & B for, more
please.
Carol put the
remaining muffins into a bag for
our lunch. At that stage we
didn’t know that the boys had
not ordered breakfast at the pub
and had gone up the road to try
the local delicacies at the pie
shop. Kangaroo or wallaby sir?
The terrain for
the next day’s tournament was
the town’s car park. The main
street was one lane each side of
the car park and you parked by
coming into the ends of the
islands. The surface was a very
hard whitish granite stone.
Attacked the surfaces of the
boules but was good to play on.
The uphill had little stone and
the downhill had all the stone.
The local council
were going to sweep it to even
out the surface but it wasn’t
done. Tents were being erected
in the middle across the terrain
so you walked through the
organiser’s tent and there was
smaller ones alongside for the
local volunteer fire brigade to
make cups of tea and the
wineries who were going to be
selling their wares.
We played a few
games for practice and then
decided we had better make the
most of the day as Saturday and
Sunday would be taken up
playing. Let the Wine Trail
begin. Visited the Blue Pyrenees
where Ken Field the Tournament
Organiser and Australian
Secretary worked.
What makes a
winery different, the setting,
the staff and the wine. We
parked out back, went to the
tasting room and discussed the
wines. It’s 11.00am in the
morning, remember you don’t have
to drink it, you can spit it
out. I thought the sparkling
Midnight was excellent, dry and
not my usual drop. Purchases
made and off we go looking for
lunch at the Mount Avoca winery.
Sorry we don’t
serve lunches. Bought a present
for the boss who’s looking after
the car in Auckland. Cold
pressed olive oil and herbed
olives. We ended up in the next
door restaurant at the pub back
in town, had a cup of tea. Too
full from the breakfast for
lunch.
Terry and Sue
arrive back after driving around
looking for us all morning and
off we go to the next wineries
on a different side of town.
Warremang and Taltarni. One of
the staff at the last was
playing in the tournament so we
found out how it all happens.
On the way back
we pass through Moonambel and
spy a public petanque terrain.
Couldn’t believe it that for
such a small place their Council
had provided one of the best
reserve type facilities I have
seen. Specifically built, two
terrains with a path down the
middle, seating, shelter and all
paved and done properly
including lights on lampposts.
It was time for
triples practice and the two
teams played against each other
to find out who was the ‘A’
team. Sue, Bill and I won, we
are the champions. You have done
it all before.
We attend the
registration at the Avoca Golf
Club that night. You don’t
pre-enter you enter on the
Friday night. The largest
tournament in Australia with 99
triples teams from all over
except WA and NT.
Meet the
organisers, bought the raffle
tickets, ate the meal and back
to the car park to practice. The
Avoca Petanque Club expect to
have their own terrain at the
Golf Club before the 2002
tournament.
Saturday. We
started at l0.00am. it is very
social the first day as some
people play to learn but the
guns fight to get into the top
32 to make sure they go into the
tournament proper on the Sunday.
They provide a separate social
tournament for the teams that
don’t make it but still want to
play.
We played five
games in our pool and beat a
good team of expat Mauritians
after being down 7 - 0 and
coming back 13 - 12. The other
NZ teams won all theirs and only
lost four points in the process
and were the top qualifiers in
the 32. It was looking good.
One of the
highlights of the day for most
of us males was this team of
three lovely girls. Aged
somewhere in their twenties.
It’s a bugger when you get older
and you can’t work out the ages.
They had fitted tees, well
filled and their team name on
the shirts was the Cereal
Killers as they had a cereal
brand on the front. Could they
play petanque.
They had this
euphoria of youth, enthusiasm
and positiveness about their
petanque. Something we sadly
lack in New Zealand. They shoot,
they point, they knew the game
and they ‘high fived’ all day.
The captain had French parents
and the other two were Italian.
One had only been playing six
months.
They had a
shooting competition, which
three of us ended up with 14
points after five disciplines.
We didn’t think they were that
good but unfortunately we
couldn’t do better and Georgio
wasn’t there. The shoot off was
to be held the next day.
It was Saturday
night at the pub, with a two
hour wait for a meal in the
restaurant attached to the pub.
Being a small town with one
major event each year they find
it hard to justify opening any
more, but mine host at the B & B
has bought the butchers shop
next to the bank and hopes to
have seating for 100 this year.
The night goes
on, the local lads continue to
perform and bait the Melbourne
boys who came for the petanque.
The stories from the ladies next
morning were quiet interesting.
We did have two other single
female boulists from Melbourne
staying with us by this time.
Played the first
two games, barrage and lost
both, one against the eventual
winners which was unbeknown at
the time. Disappointing, not
playing as well as Saturday so
we are in the Plate, sorry
Consolation. Our countrymen won
their first two games and moved
into the Principle and were
knocked out by the eventual
winners as well.
The weather on
the first day was warm with some
sun, the next day was showery,
windy and freezing cold. Just
the same as New Zealand we heard
when we got back home.
We thought we had
plenty of time to have lunch
2.30pm so went back to the Blue
Pyrenees Winery to find out we
are lucky and the Chef would
stay to make us lunch. Ian being
the quiet, unassuming person he
is then went and talked to the
Chef as he had taken and
published photos in his new
book, The Taste of Food and Wine
in Australia’ of an antipasto
dish she had made. We drowned
our sorrows in that white
sparkling wine I mentioned
before and had an excellent
meal.
The final of the
shooting was won by an expat
Frenchmen, Patrick from Adelaide
nothing spectacular. The plate
was between the other team we
had lost to and the Cereal
Killers. Experience prevailed
and the Adelaide team won.
The main event
was between a young Melbourne
team, Bomber and his mates.
Bomber has actually represented
Australia at the worlds and a
father, brother and son team
from Sydney who had Mauritius
connections and appeared to be
Indian. Gerard, Patrick and
Quinsley.
When we played
them Sue had become upset at the
way the father had stropped up
his son during the game and she
was not looking forward to
watching it. The Melbourne
pointer had a terrible
disability or at least you would
think so, he crouched and then
threw the boule in his hand at
least 30 times before he played
his shot. We timed him and yes
he was over the minute but
Gerards team didn’t complain.
Why, because the
three of them were on walkabout.
They split up and wandered off
in different directions until
the guy played his boule. They
didn’t watch because they knew
it may psyche them out. The
crowd basically made the noise
to let them know the boule had
been played. The hand stutterer
lasted 47 times at one stage
then he stood up and didn’t play
the boule, walked up to head,
walked back then went through
the process again. I wanted to
start counting out loud like
they use to when Grant Fox was
taking a kick for the All Blacks
but that wouldn’t have been very
Kiwi.
Yes over two
hours later
Sydney beat Melbourne.
They received trophies and wine
and somewhere in there was prize
money. We understand there is
$3000 worth of prizes.
The goodbyes were
said and a new network had been
established. During the weekend
I meet the Australian Petanque
Federation President Andre
Deramond. We discussed the
issues. They believe we are
further advanced in our
structures than they are. A
business plan is being put
together now and a constitution
is now being followed through at
this time. He said the biggest
problem in Australia was the
expat French who are now no
longer running the game.
He being French
has lived in Australia 30 years
and when he leaves the
Presidency behind it will be an
all Australian affair. He sited
the example that while the
expats ran the game in Sweden
they had 3500 members, once it
became all Swedish the
membership increased to 8500. We
are fortunate that we don’t have
that problem which is most
probably why Australians don’t
know the game as well as
New Zealand.
He talked about
Australian representation and
how he attended the Worlds and
watched an Australian team of
varying ages being destroyed by
the opposition. He believes they
will send representatives to the
Women’s Worlds and a juniors
team to their Worlds now to try
and lift the level of skills.
A Trans Tasman
series is another way of
involving teams of similar
levels and they were keen on
working in this area with us but
at the moment it was not a
priority.
At 6.30pm we
decide to travel to Maryborough
a larger town with a number of
restaurants to chose from and as
we leave town we see the
tournament winners looking in
the Avoca pub doors and tell
them we going to Maryborough, a
half hour drive. They said they
would come as well. We left them
behind on the road and after
wandering the streets of
Marybomugh decide on the Peach
Village Chinese restaurant.
Our seating
arrangements are put in place
and then in comes the winners.
They share our table and we get
to know them better. Sue asks
Gerard about how he was speaking
to his son Quinsley. Gerard said
he knows how far to take him to
makes sure he plays his shot
correctly.
In a game of
triples you only get two boules,
you travel to another state, pay
lots of money to be there so
every shot you play is important
because you only get two to
play. They train most days by
deciding on one discipline and
practising it for the whole time
they are there. They bury half
their ball in the ground and
then practice their carreau by
shooting it on the top. The wine
flowed, the stories were told
and the invitations were made. A
great night.
Monday morning.
Sue an I book two rooms for 2002
even if they can’t make it at
least some Kiwi’s will have
accommodation for the next Avoca
Tournament. Terry and Sue drive
over the mountains to the coast,
we return to Melbourne, Michael
meets a cousin for lunch and we
drive off to the beach at St
Kilda to spend time before the
lads catch a late afternoon
flight to Auckland.
What’s the moral
of this story? You can play
petanque to participate, to be
with old friends, make new
friends and visit new places.
You don’t have to go to
tournaments to win, that’s the
bonus if you are lucky on the
day.
Trevor Neilson –
Rotorua Petanque Club
NZ Masters Games
– Caversham,
Dunedin,
February 2002
The NZ Masters
Games alternates yearly between
Dunedin and Wanganui. The
Masters Games is an opportunity
for players usually past their
first flush of youth to continue
to participate and enjoy their
preferred sport at a level
consistent with their peers.
The Games
themselves are modelled on the
village concept where players
meet both during the day and
also in the evenings to
socialise and enjoy the relaxed
camaraderie of their fellow
competitors. The Dunedin Games
Village utilises the excellent
facilities of the Otago
University Campus.
It is against
this competitive but friendly
atmosphere that the concept of
petanque being played both as a
social game in the twilight
sessions and a competitive two
day Tournament was born.
The twilight
sessions attracted 48 doubles
teams and was held over two
evenings from 5.15pm to 9.00pm.
Many of the players were new to
petanque and had to be shown how
to play before ‘battle’
commenced, and to illustrate the
closeness of the competition
there were 4 differential points
separating second to fifth
places.
The eventual
winners were Ann Clayworth &
Ella Harris of Auckland who were
delighted to receive their
winning award from Dave Gerrard.
The competitive
tournament attracted 40 doubles
teams from many areas of New
Zealand including Auckland,
Invercargill, Christchurch,
Waikouaiti, Timaru, Milton,
Upper Hutt, Lower Hutt, Porirua
and local competitors from
Dunedin. As the number of
terrains is limited at Caversham,
it was necessary to limit the
games to 35 minutes and teams
played one game on and one off.
Day 1 saw a full
pool round being completed in
overcast but pleasant conditions
with the top 2 from each pool
qualifying for the Championship
medal round, the next two for
the plate and the final two for
the bowl. Competition was
intense but held in a wonderful
atmosphere.
Day 2 was the
second pool round and many
favoured combinations fell by
the wayside. The two pool
winners were
Ian Baker (Herne
Bay) and Doug Hay (Palmerston
North) who had won their pool
convincingly without losing a
game. The second pool was won by
Diane and Andrew Findlay
(Christchurch) who tied on three
games won but had a superior
differential.
The battle for
the gold medal was played on an
open terrain basis and was
filmed by local television. A
highlights package of around ten
minutes was to be prepared and
screened and this will give
wonderful publicity to our
sport. The match itself featured
some spectacular shooting from
both teams and consistent
pointing and was won by lan
Baker and Doug Hay 13 - 9.
John Bezett, the
Chairman of the NZ Master Games
commented on the standard of
play displayed when presenting
the medals to the finalists and
praised Caversham for the
quality of their Tournament
organisation and excellent
atmosphere created for the Games
participants.
I am sure
Caversham have the only ‘Sir’ -
in this case - Sir Clifford
Skeggs helping with the scoring!
As
Terry Holt
has said - in a Masters Games -
everyone helps.
The pool runners
up - Mark Stewart & Robin
Adamson (Caversham) and Ray and
Shirley MacNee (Milton) were
both awarded bronze medals.
The final of the
Plate was contested between Art
& Erica Vernon (Christchurch )
and Ngaire Ball & Bev Dickson (Caversham)
and the Vernons won 13 - 8. The
Bowl was a tight contest and was
eventually won by Elizabeth &
Vic Stent (Christchurch) from
Pat Heckler and Claudia Brown (Waikouaiti)
13 - 12.
The Masters Games
have even infected our Tasman
neighbours and one entrant from
Alice Springs was so taken with
petanque that he is going to
start the game there and work to
have it included in the
Australian Masters Games.
Be careful out
there - petanque fever is
catching!
Diane Findlay
Petanque New Zealand – Minutes
Summary
A very productive
2 day Committee meeting was held
in Wellington over the weekend
of 16th and 17th February. The
following is a summary of the s
discussed and decisions made.
-
Oceania 2004
Tournament
-
It is New
Zealand’s turn to host this
tournament in 2004. We
agreed that we should take
up the opportunity to do so.
It will be quite a big ask
in terms of organisation and
funding, but it is the best
opportunity we will have in
the foreseeable future to
boost the profile of
petanque as a sport in New
Zealand.
-
Oceania 2002
Team Selection
We agreed
that this would be done by
way of qualifying
tournaments. The seeding
points system was designed
mainly for seeding pools in
national tournaments, not as
a player ranking system. The
‘team’ concept is
particularly important for
Oceania and world
championships - ensuring
that people can function as
a team, not just a
collection of very good
individual players.
-
World
Championships Team Selection
For 2002,
this will remain as the
winning team from the 2002
Peugeot National Triples.
Depending on the success of
the Oceania team selection
process this year, a similar
qualifying tournament
process may be used for the
World Championships in 2003.
-
Women’s World
Championships
We agreed
that we should look at
sending a team to this
biennial event in future but
it is not possible this year
due to time constraints (the
champs are in July).
-
World
Championships 2001
Team manager
Graeme Morris presented a
report on both the
tournament itself and
matters arising from the
FIPJP Conference.
-
It was
interesting to note in
terms of enforcement of
the rules of petanque,
that at this event no
one worried overmuch
about straying slightly
over the circle, or not
interfering with the
terrain (removing
stones, stamping down
the ground). But they
were very strict on the
‘one minute’ rule.
-
The
Shooting competition was
a major feature of the
Championships, and
Graeme recommended that
we should look at
promoting this more in
New Zealand. This was
agreed, so a competition
will be run in
conjunction with the
National Triples from
now on.
-
2001 National
Singles and Doubles
Tournaments
Debrief,
matters arising:
-
Singles
entry allocation method
- extra playing days
have been added, rather
than putting
restrictions on entry
numbers
-
The
terrain does not need to
be strung into
individual pistes, but
dead ball lines must be
clearly marked
-
Throwing
circles to start ends
can be drawn wherever,
as long as they are
legal (1 metre from dead
ball lines, 500mm from
piste sidelines if
marked). Requiring
players to start each
end from where the
cochonnet finished up on
the previous end is
designed for open pistes,
and is not practical
where pistes/terrains
are restricted in size.
-
The
‘one-minute’ rule will
be enforced at future
tournaments. This is
because of the flow-on
effects of unduly long
games on the whole
tournament timing. The
count starts from when
it is agreed who holds
the point (so if you
want to measure who
holds 2nd or 3rd this
has to be done within
the one minute allowed.)
We agreed
that players who pull out of
tournaments without good
cause should be penalised.
Such behaviour is not fair
to organisers or other
players. The penalty is a
ban on entering the
following three national
tournaments.
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Survey
Results
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The
Committee would like to
thank everyone who took
the time to respond to
the survey carried out
at Labour Weekend.
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The
survey produced a clear
result in favour of
separate Singles and
Doubles tournaments.
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With
respect to demand for a
women’s only tournament,
the results were more
ambivalent. It has been
decided not to proceed
with such a tournament
at this stage.
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Many
other more general
comments were received,
both on the Bay View
tournament and petanque
in general. These have
all been recorded and
noted, and will be acted
upon where appropriate.
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Finance and
Membership
As of 15th
February, 14 clubs, covering
416 members, had paid for
membership of Petanque NZ,
and we had 78 registered
competition players.
Considering that club
‘subscriptions’ were not due
till 28th February, this is
a very encouraging start for
the new system. We are also
expecting an upsurge in
competitive registrations in
advance of the National
Triples in March.
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Coaching/Umpiring
Qualifications
Terry Holt,
who is masterminding these
issues, gave us an update.
The Umpiring qualification
system is all in place, and
just waiting for applicants.
Coaching resources will be
put together so we can get
the system in place and
working nationally.
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Website
Brenda Dykes
gave us a rundown on the
website’s ongoing
development. We have
received quite a lot of
unsolicited positive feed
back about the site, both
from within New Zealand and
overseas. The Committee is
really pleased with the way
it’s working, and feel that
it’s a great asset for PNZ
members and petanque in
general.
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Junior
Petanque
This is an
area which is rather
neglected in the North
Island compared to the
South, and not particularly
well co-ordinated
nationally. We agreed that
we need to have a better
structure and more effort in
this area. A sub Committee
will look at this.
Barbara
Whittington - Secretary
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