GOLF

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 105, 15 April 1933, Page 2

GOLF

THE MARAENUI CLUB. MEETING OF COMMITTEE. Tho committee of the Maraenui Golf Club decided that it would be inadvisable to hold any competition during the Easter holidays owing to the fact that many players would be absent from Napier and also that a large number of visitors who desired a game would be able to make use of the club’s course. At the last meeting of the committee it w'as decided to go into the matter of providing a water supply for the 18 greens, and a sub committee was set up to report on the question at the earliest opportunity. During the coming winter a treeplanting scheme will be carried out, and members arc responding freely to tho fund which has been opened for this purpose. Quite a number of ladies and gentlemen have also offered suitable trees and in the course of a few years the grounds should present quite a pleasing appearance. The membership had increased by 20 at the last meeting of the committee, and this fact alone seems to assure the club of success and gives those in control every confidence in launching out for further improvements. GREENKEEPERS’ ASSOCIATION. At the monthly meeting of the New Zealand Golf Council correspondence was read from the hon. secretary of the New Zealand Golf Greenkeepers’ Association seeking the council’s support in the direction of asking the committees of clubs to use their best endeavours to get their head greenkeepers and first assistants, who have had at least three years’ experience, to join up with the Greenkcepers’ Association. The council desires to draw attention to the fact that the association is by no means an industrial union, having nothing to do with the question of wages or working conditions: it is simply for the purpose of supplying greenkeepers with the most up-to-date methods for the laying out and upkeep of modern golf courses, which it is considered is only possible by obtaining and studying the ideas and methods in use in various parts of tho golfing world and using what suits local conditions. The hon. secretary of the New Zealand Golf Greenkeepers’ Association is Mr. Arthur Biel, 240 Herbert street, Invercargill, and he states that as soon as he can show a sufficiently strong membership he can approach the British Greenkeepers’ Association with confidence and through affiliation with them would be able to get all the matter they publish from time to time, which is invariably interesting and instructive. The annual subscription to the association is 10/6 and the financial year commenced on the Ist inst. Tho council of the association asks club committees to suggest to their greenkeeper (and any qualified assistant) that by joining up with the association he (or they) would bo able to acquire information which would be of assistance to themselves and, of course, of value to the clubs.