Get your mates together for Twilight Bowls!
UPDATE:
Sadly, due to Covid Level 3 restrictions on gatherings it's unfeasible to hold this event. All teams will be offered a refund, or they can chose to roll their registration over to the Raumati (Summer) series- 19/1-23/2. Team skips will re ceive an email withmore information.
We will continue to look for opportunities for a limited, or even one-night, tournament before Christmas and all registrants will get advance notice.
Stay well, get vaccinated if you're able, me ka kite ano
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Get ready for one of the highlights of your summer!
The music will be pumping, food and drink flowing, and competition fierce for Rocky Nook Bowls's 2021 Twilight Bowls3Five Koanga (Spring) series, sponsored by Harcourts Twentythree.
Kick-start your weekend with a couple of friends or whanau (teams can have unlimited subs) in beautiful Fowlds Park, Mt Albert. All skill levels and experience are encouraged- it's all just friendly competition... until it gets serious 🙂
Drinks will be available to purchase from the AIS bar and this year we have a range of food trucks!
Spectators and cheerleaders are encouraged, and there'll be weekly prizes of 3x double passes to The Classic comedy club for top teams as well as spot prizes throughout the tournament thanks to Bowls NZ.
The final night prizegiving will include a meals for each team (additional can be purchased) along with prizes and a trophy.
Registration fee: $150 per team (includes prize-giving dinner)
The COMPETITION
- Six week season starting Thursday 21st October through to 25th November (with rain delay hold of 2nd Dec).
- 6pm for 6:30pm start
- Teams of 3- Lead, Second and Skip in that order- with substitutions permitted (we know it's hard for everyone to commit to 6 weeks).
- Matching uniforms encouraged!
- Bowls can be supplied by the club or own bowls may be used.
- Winners Trophy and weekly prizes
The FORMAT
- Two bowl triples - 3 players each deliver two bowls, per end.
Full rules at: www.rockynookbowls.nz...
REGISTRATION: forms.gle...
- MUST CLOSE 5pm MONDAY 18th October
Christmas Eve busiest shopping day of the year with more than 500,000 sales
Busiest shopping day of the year
Peak time 12 noon-1 pm - 563,303 transactions
Per second peak - 167 transactions
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Number of sales beats Black Friday, but lowest Christmas Eve in six years
Christmas Eve has been the busiest shopping day of the year with 9,745 sales a minute at its peak.
Payments company Worldline says noon to 1pm saw 563,303 sales recorded on its network, down by about 7 percent on a year ago.
The company's network covers about three-quarters of the electronic terminals in operation.
Worldline did not have a dollar value for spending, but the peak number of transactions was the lowest for the past six years and well shy of the record 679,436 in 2019, before the pandemic.
Earlier this month it noted rising sales in the first three weeks of the month, but they remained 1.3 percent lower than 2024, with most parts of the country trailing the previous year's spending.
Official data from Stats NZ to the end of November showed a small rise in spending on the previous month, to 1.6 percent higher for the year.
Retail spending has been subdued as households have remained cautious because of high prices and a slow benefit from lower interest rates, and as well as concerns about the soft labour market.
However, recent surveys have shown improving consumer sentiment with ANZ bank's monthly report showing confidence at its highest level in four years.
Boxing Day is traditionally the country's favourite shopping day, but with Black Friday spending also softer this year the amount going through retailers' terminals may also be down on a year ago.
Adding a dampener to consumer spending may be the recent rises in longer term fixed mortgage rates because of higher wholesale rates.
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