WPA Committee Meeting Minutes

Held on Thursday, 21 January 2021 via Zoom.

Chair

Claire Bradburn

Club Delegates

Other Attendees

Barbara Nicholls (Secretary)

Apologies

Lynne Shepherd (Kapiti), Paul Bonsey (Upper Hutt), Noeline Corley (Manawatu).

Previous Minutes

The minutes of the last meeting held on Thursday, 10 December 2020 were taken as read.

Moved Val, Seconded Janet.

Matters Arising

None

Correspondence

Inwards

Outwards

Claire had spoken to Nadine who said that they had had a good response from around the country. They may do a Rules session on Zoom for club members.

Treasurer’s Report

Michael spoke to the report and has rolled over the Term Deposit. Refunds from the Thai Coaching have all gone out. Cheques are being deleted.

Moved Michael, Seconded Claire

Tournament Sub-Committee Report

The Report and the notes from the Zoom meeting have been circulated to all clubs. There was some discussion around the Open Triples being restricted to Petanque members and if any club wants to bring this up at another meeting to have it put on the Agenda.

Graeme reported that there were 16 teams from 9 clubs entered in the Interclub Tournament.

General Business

Future Meetings

The next meeting will be held on Thursday, 18 March and the following meeting will be held on the Thursday, 6 May 2021.

The venue for the AGM will be at Silverstream on Saturday, 19 June 2021.

Moved Claire, seconded Val

Christine moved that the AGM for 2022 be held at Horowhenua which was agreed.

Club Round Up

Claire then asked all clubs to comment on their Club's activities.

Wanganui East

Christine reported that they had their Christmas Party last weekend with 50 members and they had 16 players going to Kapiti for the Open Doubles at the weekend.

Manawatu

Noeline reported that all was going well, had lost a few helpful members. Doing a drive for new members and doing a letter box drop.

Horowhenua

Had a good Christmas. Had the first round of the Casey Cup today, no rain but a lot of wind. Lots of Tournaments coming and they were also hosting an Over 80's event.

Otaki

All is well, had hosted the Open Triples and also a Melee early January.

Kapiti

Successful Christmas party and BBQ. Just introduced Twilight on a Friday night.

Khandallah

Going well, and numbers are fine.

Naenae

Doing fine. Naenae went to Khandallah and competed in the Mixed Doubles recently.

Silverstream

19 members and 15 entered in the Triples Championship. Numbers are creeping up and most now are active and competitive. Have two teams going to the Kapiti Open Doubles.

Upper Hutt

Membership on paper is strong, but not all playing. Only 1 team entered in the Interclub. The Council are mucking around with the layout of Maidstone Park.

Masterton

Had a refurbishment to the pistes.. New Year's Eve function and played 1 year out and into the next. Regular numbers at club days. WBS Triples is now the Masterton Open Triples.

Charity Melee

Graeme reminded everyone of the Charity Match on Waitangi Day at Horowhenua.

Claire thanked everyone for attending.

Meeting closed at 8:20pm

Val Clark
Minute Secretary