New Windsor Clubhouse At Cost Of £12,000

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31081, 9 June 1966, Page 19

New Windsor Clubhouse At Cost Of £12,000

Another major step in the rapid development of Canterbury golf courses was taken

last week-end with the opening of the Windsor club’s new £12,000, 5000 sq. ft clubhouse.

A breeze block building, it provides Windsor members with splendid amenities.

Windsor was some of the best golf country in New Zealand, said the club president, Mr I. Munro, but its conversion from brooms and lupins was mainly to the credit of the late Mr A. R. Blank.

Playing at Windsor in its formative days, Air Blank used to carry seed with him and. throw out a handful or two after playing a hole, said Mr Munro. CLUB RENAMED

The club, originally the Burwood club, was in difficulties after the war but in 1955 a new lease of the land was obtained, the club was renamed, and from a membership of 60-on opening day in 1956 it became 180 in 1961 and was now closed at 480.

“Like every other club, we hate closing our membership, but we have to do it to protect the rights of our members—but many who want to play golf are unable to do so,” said Mr Munro. Tributes to the work of Mr I. Jordan, who was responsible for much of the early

work on the course, and for the 1961 watering scheme, and to the tremendous efforts of the present patron, Mr E. Prosser, were made by Mr Munro. Waitikiri Links Limited owned both the Waitikiri and Windsor properties, Mr Munro said, and the company had done everything in its power to assist Windsor. The chairman of directors of the company, Mr E. R.

Casbolt, referred to the recovery made by the club. His company had been formed in 1936, he said, to establish two courses in the area and Burwood had first been played on in 1940.

The war intervened, and in 1956 advertisements appeared offering hundreds of building lots at Waitikiri. Miss E. M. B. Nutt, chairman of the New Zealand Ladies’ Golf Union, congratulated the club and the official opening was performed by Mr G. Williams, immediate past president of the Canterbury Provincial Golf Association.

Representatives of other Christchurch clubs were guests at the opening, after playing on the course earlier.