Wairoa Bowling Club

29/03/2026

Awesome achievement Muzza!. Up the Rockets!!

23/03/2026

Wairoa Bowling Club Results – Gisborne East Coast Champ of Champs

Over the weekend, the Wairoa Bowling Club competed in the Gisborne East Coast Senior Pairs and Senior Fours Champ of Champs events, held at Te Karaka Bowling Club and Kahutia Bowling Club.

On Saturday, Murray Glassey (skip) and Vern Withey represented Wairoa in the Senior Men’s Pairs, while Glenda Kapene (skip) and Jo Wroe played in the Senior Women’s Pairs. Both teams performed extremely well. Murray and Vern went down in a very tight match to the eventual winners, David File (skip) and Shaun Goldsbury from Te Karaka.

Glenda and Jo started the day strongly with two great wins against teams from The Gisborne Bowling Club and Tolaga Bay Bowling Club, before narrowly losing the final 14–12 to Jesse Davis-Law (skip) and Jenny Amor from The Poverty Bay Bowling Club.

On Sunday, the Senior Men’s and Women’s Fours were played at Kahutia. Representing Wairoa in the Senior Women’s Fours were Glenda Kapene (skip), Jo Wroe, Penny Mitchell and Jo Sturmey, who played a very good game against finalists Glenys Whiteman(skip), Dayvinia Mills, Ngamiro Allen and Karen Pinn from Kahutia, eventually going down by 6 shots.

The Wairoa Senior Men’s Fours team of Peter Robinson (skip), Vern Withey, Mo Governor and Wayne Goodley displayed outstanding bowls in their first two games, beating The Gisborne Bowljng Club 18–13 and the NZ National Fours bronze medallists from The Kahutia Bowling Club 19–1. These wins put the team into the final against The Tolaga Bay Bowling Club of Boon McIlroy (skip), Ricky Miller, George Tamihana and Mark Walker. Wairoa got off to a strong start in the final, leading 13–3, before Tolaga Bay fought back, picking up 8 shots over the closing ends. However, Wairoa held on to win the title 15 -11, claiming the Gisborne East Coast Senior Men’s Fours Champ of Champs title.

A remarkable achievement by the team, who now travel to Dunedin on July 24–26 to compete for the National Champ of Champs title.

Kia mau te wehi, team!

05/02/2026

The Wairoa Bowling Club is hosting the Waitangi Day Junior Mens and Womens Intercentre clash tomorrow morning between Gisborne East Coast and Bowls Hawkes Bay. Games start at 9:30am and our very own Regan Tahuri is representing GEC, if you are available pop down and watch him in action. There will be some good quality bowls on show from both teams, so all the best, go hard and enjoy!

Kahutia Bowling Club wishes the BGEC Junior Men's Rep Team all the best on Waitangi Day (6/2/2026) playing against Bowls Hawke's Bay at Wairoa Bowling Club 🙌😊
A solid and strong team comprises of Kyle Pinn, Liam Pinn, Geoff Pinn and Kelly Te Miha of Kahutia Bowling Club; Regan Tahuri of Wairoa Bowling Club; BJ Seymour and Craig Smith of Poverty Bay Bowling Club; Greg Flett of Te Karaka Bowling Club.
Selector : Geoff Pinn
Manager : Vern Withey

25/01/2026

Wairoa Bowling Club hosted its Championship Pairs over the weekend, with Murray Glassey and Vern Withey going through undefeated to claim the Senior Men’s title. Glenda Kapene and Jo Wroe secured the Senior Women’s championship uncontested, while Mo Governor and Regan Tahuri took out the Junior Pairs title. All three teams will travel to Gisborne on 21 March to contest the Champion of Champions, with the Seniors playing at Te Karaka Bowling Club and the Juniors competing at Tolaga Bay Bowling Club.

18/01/2026

Thanks to all who played this weekend, we got through just time. It's the seagulls turn on the green now lol.

17/01/2026

The weather didn’t play ball this weekend, but the Property Brokers Optional Pairs still went ahead at the Wairoa Bowling Club. Huge effort from the 16 teams from Gisborne through to Hastings who got out there and played some awesome bowls in the conditions.
Results for the weekend were in 4th place with 3 wins and 1 draw, Gav and Jonesy. In 3rd place with 4 wins and +69 points Mal and Marise. In 2nd place with 4 wins and +70 points were Kyle and Liam and in 1st place with 5 wins were Muzza and Vern.
Thank you to everyone that made the tournament possible and special thanks to Raewyn and the crew in the kitchen and Pete on the bar.

15/01/2026

Suns out at the Wairoa Bowling Club today, hopefully the weather is kind this weekend for the Property Brokers tournament, pop in and say hello, play commences at 9.30am.

11/01/2026

Teams for the Property Brokers optional pairs held on Saturday-Sunday 17-18th January 2026.

Vern & Muzza
Andrew B & Warren
Hira & Kym
Frank & Ron D
Hona & Ron W
Steve & Marisse
Gaven & P Jones
Mo & Regan
Peter R & Wayne G
Hine & Henrietta
Kyle & Liam
Geoff & Karen
Glenda & Bill W
Shar & Kelly
Puna & Joe
Jack & John A

- Start at 9.30am
- Draw your own fate on the day
- The jug will be on early
- Lunch supplied
- M***i dress

09/01/2026

Compliments of the season to all our Wairoa bowling club members and friends...we hope everyones fresh, relaxed and ready to hit the greens in 2026... To kickstart this year, we will be having a working bee at the club this Sunday at 10am before a roll up...a reminder, its meant to be a scorcher so make sure you are dressed for the conditions.

09/12/2025

Thanks to an awesome response from our fellow bowlers, this event is now full! A big thank you to everyone who entered, and our apologies to those who missed out. We’ll be in touch with the confirmed teams soon.

07/10/2025