Wainuiomata Tennis Club 70th Jubilee

16/08/2025

We’re delighted to invite you to the Glad to Be Alive Luncheon – a special gathering to reconnect, reminisce, and celebrate the good times we've shared over the years.

📅 Date: Sunday, October 12, 2025
🕚 Time: From 11:00 AM onwards (Lunch served at 12:15 PM)
📍 Venue: Wainuiomata Tennis Club
💵 Cost: $15 (includes lunch, complimentary drink – or BYO)

This event is open to both current and past members of the club. We’d love for you to share this invitation with a family member or friend who may be interested in joining us. It’s a wonderful opportunity to relive fond memories and enjoy the company of familiar faces.

To RSVP, please contact:
• Joyce: 022 326 0235
• Lorraine: 027 259 5845
• Ian: 027 448 2778

Warm regards,
Ian, Joyce and Lorraine

21/02/2023

08/02/2023

Year 1947

On 6th December 1947 the Club moved from the concrete tennis court located at the Wainuiomata Primary School to three new asphalt courts in the Village, which were obtained after negotiations with the Wainuiomata Domain Board.

Jerry Skinner, of the Domain Board, donated 500 pounds for the Tennis Courts.

At the time the new Tennis Courts were built, everything was in very short supply. Millie Sanford's husband (Norm) knew where they could get Camouflage nets from Work Surplus Supplies. Mr Sandford was on the Domain Board at that time. Charlie Hawken and Carl Hair spent all their annual leave one year working on the domain (in preparation for the courts).

Source: Millie Sandford rems 1983

Netting: Poles (old Boiler Tubes) were erected by club members. Later on wire mesh and iron poles replaced the old fencing arrangement. Refer to extract from minutes to the opening ceremony by Mr Michael Moohan M.P.

These courts were rented to the Wainuiomata Tennis Club for an annual rental of 50 pounds.

01/02/2023

Share your memories of the Club at the 75th Diamond Jubilee! Book tickets online here 👇
https://forms.gle/DhpRWwqVd1ni7DV48

27/01/2023

No tennis on Sundays (as well as Good Friday and Anzac Day)! A decision that was in place until 1939 when after many attempts to have this decision opposed, a motion was finally carried that allowed tennis on Sundays!

Reference: Wainuiomata Primary School Sesquicentennial Jubilee 1857-2007 by Vicky Alexander.

27/01/2023

Book tickets to the Clubs' 75th Diamond Jubilee Luncheon online at
https://forms.gle/DhpRWwqVd1ni7DV48

20/01/2023

In 1934 a new concrete court was put in place on the old ashphalt court in the Wainuiomata School grounds. That’s where the Wainuiomata Tennis Club first played.

Photo credit: Wainuiomata Primary School Sesquicentennial Jubilee 1857-2007 Book

20/01/2023

In February 1924 a tennis court was established on the Wainuiomata Primary School’s grounds, on an empty site where their first schoolroom had been demolished in 1916. This was the beginning….

18/01/2023

Next month we're celebrating our 75th Anniversary, in the lead up we'll be taking you on a trip down memory lane....starting off 50 years ago!

If you have any photos that we can share, email to us at [email protected]

To book tickets to the 75th Jubilee Luncheon on Sunday 19th February visit
https://forms.gle/DhpRWwqVd1ni7DV48 or contact Ian Gooch 0274482778, 04 5643297 or email [email protected]

Wainuiomata Tennis Club
Celebrating 75 years 1948-2023