Minutes of Marlborough Pool Association Inc Committee held at Royal Hotel on Monday 8^th October, 2008 at 7pm.

ATTENDANCE;   Tardy Landon-Lane, Brian Smith, Max Barratt, Owen Gray,

                                Val MacDonald, Nicole Chauval, Ross Paton, Bruce Weallans,

                                 Greg Paul, Mike Van Loon, Lewis Green, Greg Wells,

                                 Lyn Bowman-Rutledge.

APOLOGIES;          Leanne Stowell 

PREVIOUS MINUTES;  The minutes of the meeting of 15^th September, 2008 were

                        distributed to the committee and confirmed as a true and correct

                        record    Moved  Nicole seconded Val                       carried.

MATTERS ARISING;   Builders Arms – not available.

                                    Break up to general business.

                                    Max Lingman didn’t turn up for Seddon shield.

                                    Andy Brice played instead.

TREASURERS REPORT:   As the treasurer was not available no report was given.

CORRESPONDENCE;  Post Office Box                             $135.00

                                        Miniatures for prize-giving – Awards

                                        Letter from Barry Gane.

GENERAL BUSINESS;  Prize giving – 8^th November 2008 at 12.00

Royal Hotel, Alternate shot – trophies if engraved in time               

Most improved Male Player      Lewis Green             Most Improved Lady Player      Sandy Eden           

S/Shield Lady Player                  Brenda Day             S/Shield Male Player                  Barry Gane.

Brent Simmons was on hand to explain his reason for the problem in Nelson. Barry Gane’s letter outlined how the  problem happened.  Hopefully this problem will resolve itself in the near future

The captain of the Women’s A team reported that the girls played on with good spirit and handled themselves wonderfully.  They played convincingly and  came out the winners on the day.

The Men’s team report  - The players did well and tied for the first place which was lost in a playoff of only 1 frame after all the matches had been best of 3.  We took 6 trophies and returned with 6 trophies so that is good.

S/SHIELD REPORT;  Playoffs in future will be the best of 3 – the same format as the competition.    Stalemated Rules – these are being looked at and we will hopefully have answers in the new year.

The Draw was done at the meeting – Marlborough drew the same spot for next year as we had this time.

Prices required for accommodation in Hokitika for next September – The tournament has to be held in September and the host association can fix the date.

Look at fundraising -  

Provincial Hotel – John Englefield  - see Calvin for contact details.

Uniforms are now required for the teams – We can’t outfit in waistcoats when we have Nelson – Marlborough challenge any more .

Nicole to hand a report into the paper.

CLOSURE      There being no further business, the meeting closed at 7.55pm.

Chairman............................................................