President’s message to Members - 21 Jan 2025
Dear Members
Wow, what a great start to the new year! We have some excellent news on the bore front!
We have just received a consent from ECAN to pursue the Hanmer Springs Thermal Pools and Spa discharge bore as a potential new source of our irrigation water.
This successfully completes stage one of a 3 stage process
We can now move to stage 2 which is to have McMillan’s test the water flows and water quality from this bore.
Then, if there is sufficient water to meet our irrigation needs (which we believe there is), we then can move to stage 3 which is to seek ECAN consent to withdraw the water.
FYI the stage 1 consent, that we now have, automatically entitles us to withdraw 10 cubic metres of water per day. But we require 80m3 per day hence the required stage 3 application.
Note that, had we found water in the bores that we drilled on our own property last year, we would still have had to apply for this 80m3 per day extraction.
The Club owes a huge thanks to Graeme Abbot for his efforts to secure this consent and to HSTP&S and the Hurunui District Council for offering us the use of this discharge bore as our irrigation source. We are greatly indebted to them.
Just a few other quick updates:
1. David reports that green fees, and associated revenue (bar takings, cart hire etc) over the holiday period have been in line with last year despite the inclement weather that has plagued us.
2. The course is looking amazing and quite green, thanks to the the rain and cooler conditions, and it will be in fantastic order for the Senior Pro-Am on 3-4 February.
That will be a great weekend! Mike has 47 pros and a massive field of 168 playing.
I wish good golfing to all members and for a local victory this year! Thank you to all members who are helping out in some way at this tournament.
3. Membership
Since the AGM last September we have welcomed the following new members:
Ben Willems Will Whiten Adam Williams Chris and Xander Squire
Carey Burr Max Nation Peter Sidey Stephen and Tracey Campen
Andrew and Ben Colenzo Peter and Simon Hooker Brian and Julie Jones
Please all make these new members very welcome.
It is amazing that 15 ladies have joined our “she loves golf “ introductory members programme. We hope they enjoy their golf and their lessons and they elect to sign up as members.
Welcome back to all our members overcoming illness and injury. Its great to see you out on the course.
Have a wonderful 2025 everyone.
Kind regards
Graham, on behalf of the Committee
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