Junior Pairs 2020

A new member of the Raumati Bowling Club, in fact a new bowler, is Mike Simeonoff. Lower Hutt born, Mike has lived in Kapiti for the last 44 years. He attended Wellington High School where his life-long interest in sport was developed. He dabbled with a variety of codes before eventually settling on football which…

VC Cup 2019 All the players at the VC Cup were unanimous in their positive response to this year’s VC Cup event. The weather was perfect and the club looked fantastic with the two greens fully occupied and bustling with activity. Again unfortunately it wasn’t a local team which won the Cup. The best results were produced…

Okay here’s a question: How many of you had a father who was a whaler?Answer: One, Les Roberts. That’s right, while Les was growing up first of all in Kaikoura and then Nelson, his father was among the last of New Zealand’s whalers. What’s also quite remarkable is that Les became a cowboy in Canada…

Gavin Muir Gavin Muir Gavin Muir has been our Treasurer for five years and hopefully he will continue to fill that role for a few more years. Although he was an accountant throughout his working life, there was a period during which Gavin ‘broke out’. He was working for Unilever in Petone at the time….

Flag Raising 2019 New Seaon, New Name & New Flag The 2019-20 season kicked off in sunny conditions. The new flag was raised by the club’s father and daughter bowlers- John Young and Julie Barr. John obviously didn’t have much involvement in the flag raising! The first jack of the season was delivered by the…