Hi Folks

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Thanks to Ian Hall who has been doing a stirling job on publicity during the winter. Ian has now kindly offered to help with Facebook posts and is creating a lot of interest about the forthcoming Centennial with his articles by email and facebook posts. The special email address to enquire is 100years.wanakabowls@gmail.com

The home page is currently featuring some of the centennial news, if you have difficulty reading it try using your tablet or laptop.

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Post 9th July  867 unique viewers!!!

When we celebrate the Club’s centennial at Labour weekend this year, we need to recognise the enormous debt owed to the Faulks family for the establishment of our Club and the gift of the land on which the Club is situated.

As the photo shows, a large crowd was in attendance for the official opening of the new green on Saturday, 25 October 1926.

Thanks to Bill Turnbull for the newspaper cutting, we know that clubs from Alexandra, Bannockburn, Clyde, Cromwell, Queenstown and Roxburgh were present for the event. On behalf of the Otago Central Bowling Centre, Mr J L Davidson of Clyde “congratulated Wanaka Club on the completion of the new green, which would fill a long-felt want to visitors and townspeople alike.”

Tribute was paid to Mr James Faulks for “the successful laying down of the green”.

The land was eventually gifted to the Club by Mrs Florence Faulks in her will dated 16 September 1966, and we are all grateful for this extraordinary generosity.

 

Comments:

Kura Urquhart

We knew Jim Fauks Jnr nice fellow

Congratulations on your up coming Centennial

Ann Wright

Congratulations on your coming Centennial Wanaka. A major accomplishment for your members, past and present. I hope you continue to flourish in the future.

John S. Clark
Cromwell Argus, 23 August 1926  See the newspaper cutting emailed to us.​

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