​"Sunday and Monday of Labour weekend saw the successful completion of Silverstream Bowling Club's 1 to 5 Year 242 Pairs Gala. Congratulations to the winners and all the players who participated.
Thank you again to the following people - Greens: Don McMurray & Ian Prince. Kitchen: Ian & Jane Prince & Margaret Opray. Bar: Ray Wall, Iain Opray & Hylton Tuckett. All round help for two days: Dave Turner, Iain & Margaret Opray. The SBC juniors for all their work before and after play and all other local members who pitched in and helped. Everyone present for their great support of the raffles. All the spectators who came out and supported their clubs junior players  – this is really great to see. But most of all a huge thankyou to the players whose competitive spirit and great attitudes made it a fantastic two days to be involved with!
We look forward to seeing you all again next year and encourage you all to take responsibility to get more of your clubs juniors to get involved not this this tournament, but as many difference junior bowls events that they can."

Check the Day 1 and Day 2 links for all the results.  You can see photos on our Facebook page. Photos will also be posted on our Gallery page soon.

Our women played in the first round of the Gee Shield competition on 3rd October and came away with two wins and two losses.   

Round #2 of the Club Aggregate Cup was contested on Tuesday 4th October in the afternoon and the weekly skills training session was held ​in the evening.

Saturday 8th October saw the start of the Bowls Wellington Interclub competition, with four men's and two women's teams sailing into battle.  Results were:

Women's Premier Reserve Section 2: Silverstream beat Wilton, 14-7
Women's Quad: Silverstream beat Hutt, 14-1
Men's Premier Reserve Section 3: Silverstream 1 lost to Naenae, 7-15
Men's Premier Reserve Section 2: Silverstream 2 lost to Miramar, 7-15
Men's Division 1: Silverstream beat Tawa Services, 22-0
Men's Division 3: Upperstream beat Hutt, 16-8

There was some casual bowls played on Saturday 8th October in the afternoon.

Rounds #1 and #2 of the Club Championship Fours were postponed on Sunday 9th October due to the weather.  

The Club Aggregate Cup continued on the afternoon of Tuesday 11th October and our regular Skills Training sessions continued on same evening.

The weather prevailed again on Saturday 15th October, with Interclub and the Club Variety Pairs being cancelled. 

The revamped Men's Club Championship Fours got under way on Sunday 16th October under sunny skies. 

Andrea Gray, Darren Te Whata, Denise Goldsmith, Jamie Rollo, Jo Hall, Kevin Meehan, Len Willmer, Mariana Niehaus-Ward, Mary Willmer, Pat Rainey, Peter Ward, Sharon Ritchie, Wilson Murdoch and Wray Hall.   

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Our Opening Day on 3rd September was a great success with a good turnout from existing members and a number of prospective new members attending. 

On 11th September we held a casual bowls afternoon and the Tuesday afternoon programme started with a Club Day on 20th September and the first round of the Club Aggregate Cup on 27th September.  

Our men bowlers had their first competitive outing on 24th October in the Gough Shield and Hutt Valley Banner competitions. We were runners up in the Gough Shield, narrowly missing the top spot on count back and finished mid table in the Hutt Valley Banner.

We hosted Plimmerton on 25th September for our annual challenge for the Charlie Don Shield, which was rearranged from the previous weekend.  An 8-4 win saw us regain the Shield!

The regular weekly Skills Training evenings started on 27th September. 

On 1st October our men bowlers hosted Hutt for our annual challenge.  We couldn't repeat our success over Plimmerton with a 5-13 loss ensuring that the Shield eluded our grasp. 

Throughout the month our popular Games Afternoons continued on Thursdays at 1pm and our legendary Social Evenings continued on Fridays from 4pm.