Held on Thursday, 09 October 2025, 7.30pm via Zoom.
Simon Grant (Secretary, Naenae)
Clive Williams (Umpire Coordinator Naenae)
Derek Worsley (Upper Hutt)
Val Clark (Otaki)
On top of page 2 change “PNZ” to “WPA”
With this one change the minutes are confirmed as true and accurate record, moved Kevin, seconded Claire W. Passed
There has been no feedback from Clubs detailing any changes to the draft. Clubs confirmed that the draft be placed on the website.
The President will write to Hataitai explaining that under the WPA’s new constitution Hataitai cannot be affiliated to WPA if it is not affiliated to PNZ. If any of their members wish to play in WPA tournaments (other than Open tournaments) they will need to join another club to be eligible to play. We will ask Hataitai to circulate the contents of the letter to its members.
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Out: Nil
Hataitai still have not paid their subscription’s to WPA.
The tournament and representative expenses are now shown in the Treasurers report in more detail, so Clubs can see exactly what each expense is for.
Treasurer’s report moved by Kevin, seconded by Claire (B), carried.
Both the WPA Singles and Mixed Double tournaments were run successfully. There were no issues raised at either tournament.
The WPA doubles tournament is to be held at Kapiti on 18/19 November with 22 teams entered and 7 players completing the shooting competition.
The decision to have a 3rd and 4th place play off rather than give out two trophies for 3rd equal has provided some positive and negative feedback. Most top sports have a 3rd and 4th play off the most recent being the Women’s rugby team who played France for 3rd and 4th place.
However, the clubs decided that WPA should revert to giving out trophies to the two teams that finished 3rd equal. As we have already played the singles and mixed doubles trophies will be purchased and presented to the two teams that finished 4th.
Moved by Kevin, seconded by Graeme Morris, carried. Silverstream voted against the motion.
The numbers completing the shooting competition is again very low and if it wasn’t for three Silverstream members late decision to complete it would have been cancelled.
The Wellington Team defeated Auckland by a significant margin in winning back the Chanticleer Trophy. Over the two days Auckland never won a round with the best they did was to split a round. The Wellington Team played extremely well including the four players who played for Wellington for the first time. The Wellington players certainly put in the work prior to the tournament, which showed in the overall result. Probably for the first time Wellington won a lot of the close games which in the past they have lost which provided the momentum to win the tournament.
There was no umpiring report submitted. Graeme Morris, who umpired the WPA singles provided his Umpire Report with no issues or incidents reported. The tournament was well run by Horowhenua.
There is one issue with the website which the President will take up with Anne. Thank you to Michael Rocks for looking after the website while Anne was overseas on holiday.
Good turnout at club days. Pete Hamilton Memorial is being played next month with only a few spots left.
Four new players have joined in the last couple of months. On Monday they play one game then have lunch.
One new member has joined but the weather has stopped good turnouts at club days. Members are very keen to enter WPA tournaments.
Rex Hayes tournament had a good turnout, and this weekend (12 October) is our Memorial Melee. Age Concern are encouraging people to get involved in a different activity. As part of this programme, we are having 4 Open Days during October. After two Tuesday’s potentially we are looking at having 2 new members. We host the WPA doubles on 18/19 October and the Kapiti Over 70’s tournament on 6 November.
Up to 16 members turning out for club days. Where they are odd numbers for tournaments, Silverstream members are keen to enter and prevent a bye. Seyjay and Akaina won the men’s and women’s PNZ pointing competition.
Good turnout at club days. Successfully defended the Jacques Cochonnet against Kapiti and Silverstream. Horowhenua is the next challenger.
16–20 on club days. New players are learning quickly and playing well. Masterton won the Baine Trophy. On Friday nights Masterton runs a shanghai competition with a feed of fish and chips at the end of play. A successful melee was held at the club and Graeme Morris won the club singles.
Naenae trying to encourage local players to play at other Club’s melee’s as you cannot expect other clubs to support our tournament if we do not support there’s. Naenae new Club Captain doing an excellent job.
The rules for the Jacques Cochonnet need to be updated to clarify that the 3 games played for the Jacques Cochonnet are played under untimed rules.
Meeting closed 9:00pm
Next meeting 11 December 2025.
WPA President Kevin McFadgen