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Welcome to West Melton Bowling Club

West Melton Domain, West Melton Road. Tele: 03 347 9001
Canterbury, New Zealand

The 3 pictures at the top - The left one is the Clubs Logo and if you click on it you will be taken to a roadside view of the club, courtesy of Google Maps. The middle picture was taken on Opening Day 2021; if you click on it you will see an enlarged image of the photo. The picture on the right has the current and forecast weather conditions at West Melton (note: you can hold the mouse pointer over the symbols for a description).

The main purpose of these pages:

New players - We have had the pleasure of welcoming several new players this season - some 'new to bowls' and some very experienced players; it is great to welcome these new members into our group. In the first few days of each season it was noticed that several questions were asked about the 'protocol of things' at WMBC so it was thought that we should establish a list of FAQ's - Frequently Asked Questions. Whilst Bill was looking around the web at the layout of FAQ's he felt that possibly a better way than just having a FAQ page was to establish some primary headings that he noticed in other Bowling Club sites and for those miscellaneous questions then a FAQ page could cater for these.

Feedback - We encourage all members, particularly new members to give us feedback (by email - click the Blue envelope below) of what you would like to see on the site. Plus any other comments, either positive or negative are welcome - all emails will be acknowledged promptly.

The Sporty Website - We were informed mid 2016 by the company that hosted our official website called Sportsground.co.nz that they were closing the site down at the end of 2016, however they were offering to still host us for free at their new site Sporty.co.nz with essentially all the same features that we had enjoyed in the past. They have new premium add-ons that cost money; the downside of the free site is that you get advertisements thrust at you. Many Bowling Clubs in New Zealand have their own Domain Names and in February 2018 we established ours; currently it is Hosted by Fastcomet's server in Singapore. In late September2018 Mike Burke decommissioned our Sporty website.

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