WPA Annual General Meeting 2018

Held on Saturday, 16 June 2018 at the Horowhenua Pétanque Club at 11:00 am

Welcome

The President, Graeme Millard, welcomed all members to the meeting.

Club Delegates

Present

Graeme Millard (President); Noeline Corley (Secretary); Ngaire Erikson, Janet Hall, Jan Holloway, Barbara Nicholls (Horowhenua); Kevin McFadgen (Kapiti); Liz Rocks (Khandallah); David Corley, Vaughan Husband, Judith Smith (Manawatu); Bob Horton, Colleen Horton (Upper Hutt); Sheryl Parslow, Tony Simpson, Christine Strichen (Wanganui East).

Apologies

Margret Fleck (Hataitai); Marc Khull, David Smart, Trish Smart (Manawatu).

Moved David Corley - Seconded Bob Horton - Carried.

Confirmation of minutes

The Minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on Saturday, 17 June 2017 were taken as read.

Moved Liz Rocks, seconded Colleen Horton - Carried.

Matters Arising

No matters arising.

President's report

The President's report was taken as read.

Moved Liz Rocks, seconded Clare Bradburn - Carried.

Financial Report

Michael spoke to the Financial Report that had been distributed to the clubs previously and asked for any questions from the floor regarding the report. He also said that any new members joining clubs after 31st August, 2018 need not pay affiliation fees until next year, but would need to be registered. Affiliation Fees for all club members are due to be paid by 15 September, 2018.

Moved Val Clark, seconded Noeline Corley - Carried.

Tournament Subcommittee Report

Graeme spoke to the report (197kB) which had been circulated. Graeme also thanked Claire Bradburn for her help obtaining trophies and medals.

Moved Graeme Morris, seconded Claire Bradburn - Carried.

Election of Officers

President

Graeme Millard, proposed Paul Bonsey, seconded Bob Horton

Secretary

Noeline Corley, proposed Val Clark, seconded Gary Brunton

Treasurer

No nominations were received prior to the meeting. Michael Rocks (Val Clark/Noeline Corley) was nominated from the floor.

As there were no other nominations, it was moved that nominations be closed. Proposed Liz Rocks, seconded Noeline Corley - Carried

Affiliation Fees

That affiliation fees for 2018-19 year be:

Payment of affiliation fees to be paid on Club membership as at 31 August 2018 by 15 September, 2018.

Tournament Entry Fees

That entry fees for 2018-19 be:

Tournament/Event Payments

That events payments for 2018-19 be:

Moved by Graeme Millard seconded Ngaire Erikson - Carried

General Business

Chanticleer Cup match

Claire Wilson congratulated the people who were selected for the Wellington-Auckland Chanticleer Cup Tournament.

Claire proposed that only emerging players and no NZ players past or present should play and at least two women in each team should participate in this event.

Christine suggested that 6 top players play against the top 6 Auckland players and 6 emerging players play against 6 emerging from Auckland.

Noeline liked both suggestions.

Graeme Morris said that Auckland were not breaking any rules. Michael agreed with the suggestion put by Christine. Kevin spoke about the fact that Auckland couldn’t get enough emerging players to play last year.

It was finally agreed that Graeme Millard and Graeme Morris have a meeting with Auckland representatives prior to the Tournament in Auckland in August.

PNZ Elections

Claire Bradburn spoke about the fact that there were only two nominations for PNZ, Secretary and Treasurer and it would be likely that there would be no overseas tournaments to attend. PNZ really needed someone to step up and said that there would be help available.

Liz Rocks spoke about what PNZ wants and could it be better defined. She felt that PNZ had put too much emphasis on top players and the middle of the road players felt left out. Graeme Hooper said that PNZ was tax exempt and if it folded the money would be forfeited.

WPA Website

Michael gave some stats about the website. Over the past 12 months there had been 39,091 visits from 11,502 unique addresses who had looked at 157,500 pages. The top 10 countries of origin were:

  1. New Zealand
  2. USA
  3. Russia
  4. France
  5. Netherlands
  6. Australia
  7. Ukraine
  8. Germany
  9. China
  10. Poland

YouTube

Top 5 videos are:

  1. 2016 NZ International Open Triples final - 11,107
  2. 2015 NZ vs. Malaysia (Women's World Championship) - 6,775
  3. 2015 NZ vs. Mauritius (Women's World Championship) - 3,661
  4. 2017 PNZ National Triples Championship final - 3,362
  5. 2016 Kapiti Open Doubles - 2,647

Twitter

Umpiring

Michael had spoken to Trevor Nielsen about coming to Wellington to coach umpires and had indicated his willingness to come.

Tournament Workshop

Michael said he would be willing to organise a Tournament Workshop.

Committee Meetings

Graeme Millard will organise some dates for WPA committee meetings for the coming year.

Meeting closed at 2:05 pm.

Val Clark
Minutes Secretary