On Saturday, 24 September, the Club’s AGM was held and was attended by a high percentage of members. The President of NIBA, Johan Barkhuizen, attended and gave a presentation on the new Tool Kit available to clubs. The election of office bearers took place with all positions being filled. The Club President for the forthcoming year is Colin Burden. We congratulate all the elected committee members and thank all our members for their presence and for the delectable eats provided.
Results:
The much postponed competition sponsored by Giovision and Greendale Kwikspar eventually took place on Wednesday. 21 September. The winners were Ian Andrews, May Blackford and Colin Brown.
Forthcoming Events:
Wednesday, 28 September: Competition sponsored by J Leslie Smith and The Health Nut.
Saturday, 01 October: Men’s and Ladies’ League matches begin. Members are requested to check the notice board for all relevant information pertaining to venues.
Wednesday, 12 October: Tabs in competition sponsored by Halfway Toyota Howick.
Regular tabs in times are as follows: Tuesday at 08h15 (dress is casual); Wednesday and Saturday at 13h15 (whites/club colours).
Prospective new members and visitors are always offered a cordial welcome by our friendly members. Coaching is available for those requesting it. For further information, why not pop in to the club on Tuesday mornings or Wednesday and Saturday afternoons?
News supplied by Umgeni Waterfall Bowls Club.
Howick High School
On the 6th of September Howick High School held their annual Matric Art Exhibition. Matric students are required to put up retrospective exhibitions showing their work over the past 3 years. Many of the students could be justly proud of the standard of work they exhibited. As is our tradition pupils have the opportunity to auction their artworks on the night in a silent auction. The auction was well supported with friends and family bidding against each other for their favourite artworks. The top bid this year was for a drawing by Patrick Ferguson which sold for R300.00 and Patrick was also the top earner of the night bringing in R1100. The silent auction raised a total of R5020 for the Art Department and its Artists. A number of pieces have been selected for display in the Matric Art Exhibition at the Tatham Gallery in 2017.
The
Scoping and EIA Process: Application for Environmental Authorisation with regards an Exploration Right Application for Petroleum on various farms in the KwaZulu-Natal Province (12/3/291 ER)
At the inter-school athletics meeting held in Pietermaritzburg on Saturday 03 August Howick Prep School was placed 1st followed by Laddsworth, Athlone, Northern Park, Gert Maritz and Richmond. At the Pelham Athletics meeting a week earlier, Howick Prep School girls team was also placed 1st ahead of Pelham, TWC ‘A’, Laddsworth, Athlone and Scottsville.
This year the annual 
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Congratulations to Clark Logan on his selection to represent NIBA in the Inter District Tournament as part of the B Side. Well done Clark! Your fellow bowlers at Umgeni Waterfall Bowling Club are proud of your achievement. Colin Burden has been appointed Manager of the B Side.
The Texas-based oil exploration company Rhino Resources has cut back on the scale of its proposed oil and gas exploration bid in KZN after a major public backlash. The company’s local subsidiary, Rhino Oil and Gas Exploration, lodged an exploration application early last year covering a massive 1 500 000ha chunk of the province and nearly 10 000 farms. Now the scale of its exploration bid has been reduced to 850 000 ha and about 6 700 properties in central KZN. Environmental consultants acting for the company acknowledged that there had been “extremely strong” and almost unanimous public opposition to the exploration plan, which could ultimately involve hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”). The public have now been invited to comment on the draft environmental impact studies before October 14. Six public feedback meetings have been scheduled in Richmond, Colenso, Mooi River, Howick, Greytown and Dundee from October 3 to 7. For a map of the revised exploration area, see www.ccaenvironmental.co.za (IOL).
Howick Prep School had seven players selected to various representative sides at the recently held cricket trials. Congratulations to Robert Lawrence (Midlands U/12A Captain), Tylan Adam (Midlands U/13 squad), Bonga Phiri (Midlands U/13 Squad), Ethan March (Northern Districts), Daniel Sookdhew (Northern Districts), Stephen Whitwell (Northern Districts) and Joshua Moller (Northern Districts). Howick Prep School 1st team coach, Mr Ashley Sokaloo, was also appointed as an Inland U/13 Cricket selector and as one of the Inland U/13 Cricket coaches.
THE PERSONAL TOUCH.....
Mad dogs and, no! Not Englishmen, but bowlers..... go out in the rain and sun!
On 28th August, the Midlands Hiking Club hosted a beginners hike through Boughton. Thanks to hike leader, Katy Hart for providing the opportunity to do a very manageable hike. There was quite a lot of variety in terms of hills, cool shaded walks, open forestry tracks and the very pleasant walk through a leaf covered trail. the hike covered a very respectable distance of 7.2 km, all of this within the borough of Pietermaritzburg.
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