April 2018 - Hornby Working Men's Club

April 2018

PRESIDENT’S CORNER
Hello Members,
We’ve continued to enjoy the last of summer and
early autumn, I trust you made the most of it over
the Easter break.

I would like to thank all those who turned out to the
Special General Meeting on March 18th regarding the
redevelopment. The decision to go ahead was
approved, and we are hoping to start demolition
early in November. We are looking forward to the build, and thank you for
your support.

On the 1st of April the club opened at 8:00am for the Parker v Joseph boxing
match. About 450 turned out to watch, with 150 in for breakfast. A great start
for Easter Sunday, but unfortunately we witnessed Parkers first ever defeat.

The Crusaders had a good win against the Lions in South Africa, and the
Warriors are going well, winning 4 games on the trot. Hopefully it continues.
Cricket has wrapped up now, with a successful year for the Blackcaps.

In entertainment news – a couple of upcoming ticketed shows – Neil Diamond
tribute on the 27th and Anthony’s Retro Rockin on May 12th. As well as our
Saturday house bands all month long.

Hope to see you
around the club.

Regards,
Kevin Cole

                      Eddie Low takes the stage for an impromptu song at the
                                         Presidents Night.

Tuesday to Sunday       approx. 4pm – 6pm
Saturday                approx. 11:30 – 1pm
$2 per ticket   Great value for everyone
    MEMBER’S CARD
     LUCKY DRAW
     TUE – WED – THU
  2 draws – each winner gets
     $100 onto their card
  Register personally at Reception by 6pm
        Prize Draw approx. 6:10pm
         You must be here to win!

EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT
 When there are 5 Fridays in the month, Crack the Cube
  will be replaced in the 5th week with 5 x $100 draws

HAPPY HOURS
                                      LOSING TAB TICKETS
                                            Put your membership number of the
                                            back of your losing TAB tickets and
MON – THURS                                 placed them in the tin below next to
                                            the TAB Self Service Terminals – one
NOON – 1PM                                  ticket drawn at 12 noon every
                                            Saturday – the lucky winner gets $50
5PM – 6:30PM                                worth of Easybet tickets
$1 OFF BEER JUGS

ALLSPORTS
Hello everyone- Our AGM will be held on the 9th April. Please note there will
be NO monthly meeting on the 2nd of April.
Just an early heads up for our 2018 programme;

Les Griffiths              Friday 11th May
Dumbo Hampton              Friday 13th July
Alan Cole                  Sunday 5th August
Tops Driving Academy       Friday 24th August
Dick Bain                  Friday 28th September

Please put these dates in your calendar.
We look forward to seeing you there.

Cheers, Darren Smith – Allsports chairperson

CARDS
Hello to all members. Our Card Section Members are enjoying our section
activities since restarting over the last 2 months. Just to recap on last
month’s report, we had a team of 8 drive up to Blenheim (thankfully,
Kaikoura Coast road open the day before) to play in the Clubs NZ South
Island Steinlager Euchre Tournament up at Blenheim on 4th March. It was
a well run tournament by their club, 20 clubs from around South Island
participating. We finished a close 7th as a team score. We held our own
section 6 handed tournament on Sat. 10th March. This was such an
enjoyable day by those who played.

The photo shows the best top scorers on the day.
          1st Jeanette Hosking, Cheryl Gianelly and Jimmy Patu
           The rest of us others in photo, we were 2nd and 3rd.

We wish our fellow Hornby Crib Section, hosting the 2018 Crib Nationals
Tournament on Sat 14th-Sun 15th April, a successful Tournament, Always
great to share our club facilities with members from our other New
Zealand Clubs.

We have our Annual General Meeting (AGM) for our Cards section on
Thursday 19th April at 7.30pm and chance to have friendly 6 handers with
supper to follow. We urge all members to attend. Any concerns how we
run our section during year need to be voiced that night, or we continue as
we do best for our section members.

It’s been great to welcome our new members that have joined us over the
last few weeks, It can be quite daunting coming along first time, but I hope
you feel okay once playing with us all. So just a reminder our Hornby
Members that have played for years n years..... When we have a new player,
you may need to slow the game down and just give friendly guidance if
need be!!! Don't scare them off - We want these new members to keep
coming back! So see you all at 7.15 pm on Thursday nights.
Regards, Lorraine Cole

CRIB
It is a very sad month for our Section with the passing of Bob Lavender.
Always a friendly team mate or opponent, ready with a smile and a
chuckle, a real gentleman who we all looked forward to playing with. Our
thoughts go out to Brenda and her family. Bob will be greatly missed. Peg
on forever!
Our section is looking forward to April with the Nationals being held at
Hornby, with approx. 150 players attending from all around New Zealand.
Good luck to all of our players. Enjoy yourselves and play well. Hopefully
we will have some great results to report on in the next newsletter.
April is also our AGM for the Crib Section. It’s been a successful year for the
section and its members. Thanks to Dianne and Ricky for their leadership
and to the whole committee for their efforts over the year. A job well done
and we look forward to yet another successful year.
We continue to have good numbers each Wednesday. The cards are
competitive with different winners each week. We have also introduced a
pair’s night once a month, with team Ricky and Gina winning our first one.
Any Club member wishing to join our friendly Section is more than
welcome to come along, 7 pm every Wednesday night to partake in one of
the greatest card games there is.
All the best - The Cribbage Crew

DARTS
Welcome back to another year and what a great start to the year returning
from the South Islands with the
silverware for the cabinet (4 in total) with
Hornby in all but 1 final.
It all started on the Tuesday night with
the 50th Jubilee Singles, Maata won the
ladies and Gary Jones was runner up in
the men’s.
Then it was the Mixed Pairs on
Wednesday with Mark J & Raewyn getting
runner up South Island Mixed Pairs and
Lucas & Mel getting 3rd equal and Warren
& Vernaleigh getting 5th equal.
                                           On Thursday it was the Ladies &
                                           Men’s pairs with Maata & Raewyn
                                           winning the ladies pairs, and
                                           Warren & Craig getting runner up
                                           in the men’s pairs.
                                           On Friday it was the Ladies
                                           singles with Raewyn winning.

Friday night it was the youths with Jordan
coming runner up in the final.
Saturday was the Men’s singles with Craig
getting 5th equal. Warren got the Men’s
highest finish with a “170” and Hornby had to
share the aggregate with Kaiapoi with 5.37.
Saturday was a great night with the
announcement of the South Island team and
Hornby got 6 players in the team well done
Warren, Craig, Vernaleigh, Sarah, Raewyn & Maata.
I would just like to say how proud I was of all the Hornby WMC & MSA dart
players and supporters that attended the tournament in Oamaru and that
you all did us proud. The winter round starts on the 4th of April and we
have 8 teams, good luck to you all.
Yours at tops – John Poole

GOLF
Hi everyone. A wet day greeted us for our game at Kaiapoi on the 11th
February and 14 hardy golfers went to battle the elements. This was the
first round of the Sisson and Staff trophies, with the winner for the men
being B Stringer with a nett 69 and the ladies winner was P Brewer with a
nett 73. Congratulations goes to B MacKey for his Hole in one on the 13th,
unusual shot but finished perfectly. Nearest to the pin was M James on the
1st who also picked up the prize for the jack pot hole.
Our game at Burnham was cancelled; also we had ten men away playing in
the nationals.
The next game was at Waimakariri Gorge Golf Club on 18th March for the
Sexton trophy, this is a nett game with the pairs drawn after the game. The
winning pair was R Hampton & S Stevens with a nett 141.
Our next game is on 22 April at Templeton against Ashburton for the
Ashorn trophy. Anyone wishing to get back into golf or give it a go and
have some fun, contact Steve Stevens on 3446332.
All the best, Steve

OUTDOOR BOWLS
Our March game looked in doubt with the weather not flash during the
week and again on Saturday night but Sunday turned on one of the best

days for bowls, we have had this season. The Webster Trophy played
between the men and ladies of the section saw the men narrowly defeat
the ladies by one win. Les Wilson’s team with Alf Shearman, Graham Payne
and Peter Sutcliffe set up the win for the men winning both their games.
Our next game, a bus trip to Dunsandel is on the 15th April please place
your name on the game sheet if you wish to play.
Robin Leary - Chairperson

MIDWEEK BOWLS
Numbers attending our Tuesday afternoon bowls continue to be very
pleasing. We have recently welcomed two new members and the return of
another who had been away for a couple of years. The BBQ we held on 27
February was a very enjoyable occasion and on that note we would like to
thank the restaurant staff for the help and lovely spread they provided for
us. Our AGM is on 10 April and we would like as many members as
possible to attend. New members are always welcome.

Regards, Tony McBride

POOL
Our Interclub Season kicked off on Tuesday 20th March for Premiers and
Div. 1, Wednesday 21st March for Div. 2 & 3. Our season is already in full
swing with a few warm up matches planned prior to Interclub starting and
our tournament calendar is already underway.
The CNZ 8 Ball Tournaments started in the South Island with an open
singles event at the Timaru RSA. This event saw the retirement of Garry
Simpson from running tournaments. He will be a big loss to CNZ 8 Ball and
especially South Canterbury 8 Ball. Garry is a valued member of Hornby
Silver and will continue playing for Hornby.

The Final of this event was an all Hornby affair with Barry Henderson and
Malcolm Pollock fighting it out with Malcolm coming out on top.
Since an open Singles tournament at New Years, the Pot Black Challenge
Open Singles at Formally the Blackball Hilton and this one, Malcolm has
won all 3.

A sensational effort with some very impressive performances.

We have run our first in-house tournament for 2018 on the 25th February,
it was the Hubbard Shield – Drawn Pairs. There were some very good
pairings and the final was between Paul Morris & Mike Jeffery playing John
Gower & Jimmy Bird. It was an impressive display of pool from both
pairings with Paul & Mike coming out on top winning 4 – 2.

It is great to see many new players that have joined the section this year
and it looks as though our interclub teams will be quite strong.

We will have 8 teams this year,
Premier. Gold, Green and Silver.
Div.1 Yellow
Div. 2 Black & Miscues
Div. 3 Diamonds & Blues

Good luck to all teams.
Regards, Allan Cowan

FISHING
The highlight of the past month has undoubtedly been the Clubs NZ South
Island trout tournament hosted by the Cromwell Town and Country Club.
Thursday 22nd March saw 29 of our members assemble at the Central
Gateway motel in Cromwell, anticipating what proved to be a fantastic
weekend.
Friday was spent, by most, checking out the most likely fishing spots on
the local lakes and rivers before the tournaments’ start at 17:00. Saturday
morning dawned bright and sunny, but cool, making for a great fishing
day. It was pleasing to see 159 entries this year with 95 fish being weighed
in. Hornby weighed in 12 fish but unfortunately none could match the
eventual 3.72kg winner landed by Rene Tamblyn from the Cromwell Club.
We did manage to come 3rd in the aggregate however. The tournament
concluded on Saturday evening with the prize giving followed by a
delightful meal.
We now look forward to Rangiora RSA next year with Gore T & C running
the event in 2020.
Don’t forget the Jack Elcock @ Lake Brunner on the 13th & 14th of April,
This promises to be another great event, with a contingent from Rangiora
RSA joining us this year.
Would all section members and intending members please pencil our AMG
date, 18th April, in your diaries. The positions of Chairperson, Secretary
and Charter Convener are becoming vacant this year. Please consider
putting your name forward for these roles. Don’t forget that our meetings
are held on the first Wednesday of the month at the Club, all Club member
are welcome to come along
Tight Lines- Denys Street

TABLE TENNIS
Interclub competition begins early April and we are hoping to enter the
same amount of teams as per last year, eight.
Club night is Tuesday nights at 7.30pm with Social Table Tennis every
Tuesday morning 10am-12pm in the Sports Hall.
New members are always welcome.
Regards, John

TRAVEL
              5 DAYS IN NAPIER
Well the trip to Napier was off to a slow start
but soon the close knit team of 23 really got
into having fun.

The slow start occurred due to an early
morning text received from Air New Zealand
advising the flight due to board at 8.30am had
been cancelled. Wow I thought what to do
with 23 members. Air NZ very quickly had us
sorted to fly to Auckland at 9.30am then
down to Napier. We boarded our plane and
sat on the tarmac for approximately 45
minutes, the reason being they were waiting
for a final passenger to board, unfortunately
they never did board so all the luggage had to
be off loaded, they then discovered the          We made it to Napier!
luggage wasn’t there anyway. We arrived in time to board plane for Napier.
We arrived to beautiful weather and the friendliest of staff at the Quality
Inn four hours later than scheduled time. This was not a problem as the
rooms were all ready and the afternoon was set down as free time until
6pm when we met for drinks and dinner.

Thursday was early pickup with our coach to be driven out to the loading
bay for the tractor ride along the beach to visit the gannet colony. This was
a four hour exercise which brought screeches of laughter as we bumped
over the rocks and along the beach with the waves breaking over us. The
whole experience was very exciting and very, very interesting as our
tractor driver Murray pointed out the different fault lines and the erosion
of the cliffs. We then reached the end of the 9km with the chance for some
to climb up the hill for a lookout. Several managed to achieve this climb,
well done to those who made it.

                               Amazing
                             Gannet Colony
                              Experience

Then back to the tractors to return to our starting point. A very exciting
and enthralling morning. The afternoon was then free time to explore
personal points of interest. The evening saw members looking at different
locations to relax and find a dinner venue. A large group visited the West
Quay where there were several bars and restaurants.

Friday was pickup in the Vintage Cars
with an interesting visit to their
showroom followed by a tour around
the art deco of Napier. This was
enjoyed by all driving in chauffeur
driven open vintage cars. We hired out
six cars averaging four per car.

                 Vintage Cars Journey
In the afternoon the free time was spent with some resting up,
some travelling by bus to Hastings to look
around and eight drove around in
a most exiting Supertrike tour.
This has been voted as No. 1 on
trip advisor and it
certainly did thrill those
of us that took the
plunge. We met
at 6pm for
drinks and
dinner at
the RSA.                                       The Ride of a Lifetime
                                                    on a Supertrike!

Saturday - St Patrick’s Day
What better way to start the day than with a Guinness at Murphy’s Bar in
Havelock North. Great music, great
Guinness, and great fun. We then
travelled on to our lunch stop at “Off
the Track” restaurant for lunch,
before visiting three wineries for
tastings. The whole area was very
busy due to the National Horse of the
Year show in Hastings, and the
planned Neil Diamond concert which
unfortunately had to be cancelled
due to his ill health but lots of people
still visited the town as planned. The
soundshell in the evening played lots
of Neil Diamond. Half a dozen of us
ventured out for the evening kicking
up our heels and was such fun as we
laughed and danced in an amazing
atmosphere made all the better by
the few quick shots earlier.
Sunday before departing to the airport for our homeward journey we
celebrated three birthdays with cake – unusual to have three out of twenty
three birthdays all on the same day.
The days were enjoyed by everyone, and the most rewarding thing of all was the
reservations manager informing me we were the most fun loving and easy
group to have stay. She wished all groups were as easy to deal with as us. She
and her staff even came out to wave us off in our coach.
Thank you to you kind people for generously presenting Steve and I with the
opportunity to have a night and dinner away. It really is greatly appreciated; we
haven’t decided as yet where to go but will endeavour to take up the
opportunity before the weather turns too sour.
                                     Next Event
April 18th 2018 Wednesday - A booking has been made to visit the Kate Valley
Landfill in Hurunui area. One of the employees at the Landfill will board our
coach and explain how the landfill and recycling works. This will be followed by
a presentation.
We will then visit a couple of wineries before lunch at the Old Leithfield Pub.
Please note the lunch will not be until 2pm so you may wish to have a good
breakfast.
  NEXT MEETING IS THE AGM ON 16TH APRIL 7PM IN THE ALPINE ROOM
Notice will be on board shortly for nominations for the committee
Warm regards, Lyn Wright

Sports Section Chairpersons
Section              Chairperson                       Contact
All Sports          Darren Smith                     027-388-9030
Billiards/Snooker   Geoff Baldwin                      03-942-2982
Cards (Euchre)      Diane Heath                        03-349-2455
Cribbage            Diane Heath                        03-349-2455
Cricket             Sam Walker                        027-825-4939
Darts               Wendy Gibb                         03-942-2395
Fishing             Denys Street                       03-349-5142
Golf                Steve Stevens                      03-344-6332
Indoor Bowls        David Bullock                      03-980-8667
    Midweek Bowls   Tony McBride                       03-322-8803
Outdoor Bowls       Robin Leary                        03-349-9390
Pool                Paul Morris                        03-338-6513
Table Tennis        Michael Hills                     027-231-8356
Travel              Lyn Wright                         021-507-671

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                             •   Signed Steven Curry NBA Singlet
                             •   Weekend in Queenstown
                             •   Panasonic “58 TV
                             •   Weekend in Fox Glacier
                             •   BBQ & Outdoor Furniture
                             •   Signed 2017 All Blacks Jersey
                             •   Home security package
                             •   Signed 2018 Crusaders Jersey
                             •   Akaroa getaway
                             •   Year supply of pizza
                             •   Year supply of beer
                             •   Weekend in Hokitika
                             •   Groceries from New World
                             •   Ken Nysee painting
                             •   Signed 2017/18 Black Caps bat
                             •   Paslode Nail Gun

Entertainment
        Fri 6nd
April   7:00 Jo’s Karaoke
        Sat 7th
        4:30 Marion’s Outlaws
        8:00 Reckless Duo
        Fri 14th
        4:30 Barross
        8:00 Little City Duo
        Sat 21st
        4:30 Norm Bland
        8:00 Th’ Art of Cheese
        Sun 22nd
        1:30 Annette’s Heart of Country $6
        Fri 27th
        8:00 Neil Diamond Tribute $20
        Sat 28th
        4:30 Ian Mac
        8:00 The C-Bay Band

        Sun 29th
        2:00 Neville Wilkins & The Viscounts $5
        2:00 Carter Family Fundraiser $10

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