New Zealand Club Teams Championships 2008 - results now published

The Wellington heats of this event were held on Sunday 27 July. Results are now published in the tournaments section of this website here.

Passing of a stalwart

The WCBC was deeply saddened to learn of the recent death of Dougal McLean. Dougal worked tirelessly, both for the Centre and for the Victoria Bridge Club, for many years. He was a close friend to many and will be sorely missed. Our condolences go to his family.

It's all over (almost)

At the SGM on 19 July the two motions passed on 3 June were confirmed. The Centre will therefore cease to exist on 30 September, with its assets to be given to the Regional Committee.

Interclub Round 6 Results

The provisional sixth-round results for the 2008 Interclub are now published, along with the provisional finalists in the Junior and Open sections. The next/seventh round Open and Junior will be held at Hutt Bridge Club and the seventh round intermediate at Kapi-Mana Club. Refer to the Interclub section of this website or click on the links below:

Open Results, Draw and Venues 2008
Intermediate Results, Draw and Venues 2008
Junior Results, Draw and Venues 2008

Rubber Bridge 2008

There were 23 entries received, enough for a second Wellington pair to play at the national knockout. Details here.

Results of SGM

A Special General Meeting was held on Saturday 3 May to discuss the winding up of the Wellington Contract Bridge Centre. The resolutions and other information on this meeting are on the Special General Meeting sub-page linked on the menu bar on the top left.

A follow-up SGM will be held at Wellington Bridge Club on 19 July at 9:30 am. An agenda will be sent to all clubs shortly.

Wellington Interprovincial Trials - Results

Click here for details of the Inter-Provincial Trials Results 2008, the placings were:
Open: 1. Grant, 2. Rew, 3. Gruschow
Women's: 1. Prichard, 2. Stallinger 3. Delany,
Seniors: 1. Gibson, 2. Thomson; losing semifinalists Wigbout and Hanna
Intermediates: 1. Michael, 2. Porter; losing semifinalists Joseph and Rosevear.

Wellington Bridge Congress 2008

The congress has been completed and was a success. Winners of Open events were:
Teams:
1 D Ackerley, S Smith, D Smith, M Ware 2 M Reid, P Newell, S Blackstock, S Henry 3 F Rew, J Davidson, S Humphries, P Gosney
Pairs:
1 M Whibley, L Milne 2 S Humphries, P Gosney 3 D Ackerley, S Smith

Full results are at www.wellingtoncongress.org.nz

New Regional Committee

The Regional Committee will take over from the Centre from 1 July. The members, with nominating clubs, will be Tony Sutich (Kairangi), Margie Michael (South Wairarapa), Ed Porter (Wellington), Paula Jenner (Wellington) and Barry Smith (Masterton). The chairman will be decided once this group has convened.

Centre Island Pairs 2008

Congratulations to Russell Dive and Anthony Ker. Full results in the Tournaments section of this website, or click here to go directly to the results page

Main Centre Pairs 10A pts Tournament

This tournament was held at Victoria Bridge Club on the weekend of August 25-26 2007. For more information go to Main Centre Pairs 10A, click on the underlined text here.

Wellingtonians Successful in National Trials

Congratulations to Stephen Blackstock, Stephen Henry, Peter Newell and Martin Reid, who (with Aucklanders Tom Jacob and Malcolm Mayer) won the National Open trials held in Auckland over Easter.

New Constitution of the NZCBA; New Zealand Bridge Inc.

Progress

The new constitution has been adopted at the AGM. Bulletins advising how it will be implemented are being published regularly Read On ...

Forum now open!

♥♥ Yes, our brand new forum has opened and is in business. We invite you to post on any bridge related topic. Hurry over there and take a look!