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Saturday-Sunday, 10-11 May, the Club are hosting a 15A Open Tournament, with the addition of a 3A tournament on the Sunday.

There is now a chart on the notice board indicating times of activities to eliminate any double-up use(s). If a slot is required for scoring, dealing or anything else, including room hire, please fill in the time, date etc.

Saturday Bridge: 17 May. Everyone very welcome.

Should you require a partner call Rosa 389 8514.

Meeting: The next Committee Meeting, 5.45pm, Thursday, 15 May 2008.

Social Bridge for this winter season has begun. It starts at 11am, byo lunch, and finishes around 2.45pm Contact is Rosalie Linklater Tel: 380 8689.

Interclub – Round 2, 2 May. Open won, Junior 1 & 2 won, Junior 3 lost; and both Intermediate teams lost.

Note: Round 3 - 23 May. Kairangi hosting Open and Junior Grades; and Intermediate is played at Wellington.

The following paragraph was part of an article in last month’s news.

[Every player should shuffle his/her original 13 cards before returning them to the board; this is so that the next player to hold the cards will not receive any information regarding the bidding or the play of the hand at the previous table. This is particularly relevant when there is a "passed in hand"].

Also players should remember that they are not to touch any other players cards even after the cards have been returned into the respective pockets.

For safety sake and to help prevent falls please keep handbags off the floor. Another request, please be quiet when the Director is speaking.

Food for Thought: The cardiologist’s diet: If it tastes good, spit it out!

Some of you have been asking the question what is this?? It is recognition of partnerships that have reached this amazing milestone.

Kairangi has Tony Sutich as a Committee Member, one of five, on the Wellington Regional Committee. This takes effect 1 July ’08 under the new structure of bridge in New Zealand.

Kate Smith is very quietly and diligently looking after the Club library. And, Kate has kindly forwarded the following article.

A repeated plea: please return overdue books. There is quite a long list of overdue books and as our bridge book collection is very small, they are missed.

• For those not familiar yet with borrowing books: the books are arranged on the bookshelves in alphabetical order (the ‘Goren’ group is on the top shelf).

• On the inside of the front or back page there is a pocket containing the book card with the author’s name and the book title.

• Please remove this card and write your name and date of borrowing on it and then place it in the wooden card box sitting on the bench below the bookshelves.

• When returning the book please retrieve your card from the ;box, enter the date of return on the card, and then put the card back into the book’s pocket and the book back onto the shelf (in alphabetical order).

• To facilitate the filing of cards, they are arranged by author’s surname in alphabetical order. On the top right corner of each card you will find the first three letters of the author’s surname.

Thank you for co-operation.

This is a request to all members – "if you know of someone who has not been at bridge for some time why not ring them and invite them along to a session, or two".

Dealing Machine – A progress report: training is underway. Please be patient – as soon as possible most sessions will be using pre-dealt hands. Computers are wonderful but not quite like the magic wand, they do need human input. To deal one set of boards takes 2 people, one hour??

The Park Bowling Club ‘GREAT BRIDGE DAY’. Everyone welcome. Details later.

The Kairangi Bridge Club News Update – April 2008

RESPECT - When the Director is speaking please stop talking and listen. After the tea break when the bell has been rung please move to the appropriate table quickly and quietly.

For every player, at every session of bridge, the Club pays 30c for ‘C’ points to NZ Bridge.

Saturday Bridge – 19 April

Bring a friend or family member – everyone welcome. Call Rosa 389 8514 should you require a partner.

The next Committee Meeting, 5.45pm, Thursday, 17 April 2008.

On the 16 April, 11am Social Bridge will be starting again for this winter.

Contact is Rosalie Linklater Tel: 380 8689.

Interclub – Round 1, Results - 4 April ‘08

Regrettably all our teams lost.

Do have any old vases, or suitable holders for flowers that you no longer use? The Club would be very happy to give them a new home, especially pottery or china types.

That any suggestions/complaints/queries are not permitted to be made on behalf of someone who remains anonymous at any committee meeting, AGM or special general meeting. The only exception to this will be in the case of the President who will be the only person that can directly represent someone who wishes to remain anonymous and the President believes that there is justification for this. In addition, all suggestions put in the suggestions box, shall be signed, otherwise they may not be considered by the committee."

Thought: "Car Parks: a place where you pay to leave your car while dents are put in it"

In 2007 the Laws of Duplicate Bridge were revised by the World Bridge Federation and these new Laws come into effect from 1 June 2008.

The changes mostly affect the Directors, and N.Z. Bridge is presently organizing refresher training for existing Directors nationwide. Martin Oyston and Allan Joseph have both been invited from the Wellington area the first such training course in Auckland in May.

Players need not concern themselves except to slowly get use to some of the changes. A few easily remembered changes are –

• Every player should shuffle his/her original 13 cards before returning them to the board; this is so that the next player to hold the cards will not receive any information regarding the bidding or the play of the hand at the previous table.This is particularly relevant when there is a "passed in hand".
• The Laws no longer prescribe penalties for irregularities in bidding or play. To redress damage to non-offending players rectifications are prescribed.
• There are however still procedural penalties at directors discretion.
• Directors have been granted a greater degree of discretion in an attempt to ensure that the "spirit of the Laws" is adhered to rather than the exact letter of the Law.

An email was sent around the members, and copies pinned on the notice board about a series of three classes, on Saturday mornings during April. President Allan has kindly given his time to conduct these - so please consider joining these and making a very worthwhile contribution to the Club.