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1972
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Consortium calls for
interested parties to form a tennis club. Land is set aside
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1974
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Group formed to set up Club
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1975
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Club formed
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1976
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Club is incorporated
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1977
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Courts 1 & 2 are
completed and the club is operating with a membership of 150
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1978
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New club rooms completed by
the club. Whitby Tennis Club is now one of the largest in the Kapi-Mana
area
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1983
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The joint development of
courts 3 & 4 completed with the Hutt County Council, Porirua City
Council and Whitby Tennis Club. Each party contributed a third to the
cost of the courts
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1988
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Major extensions to the
clubhouse are completed. These were funded by the Whitby Tennis Club and
a small loan from the Westpac Bank, which was guaranteed by PCC. The Club
Rooms are now valued at $100,000
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1991
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Now the largest club in the
Kapi-Mana association with 270 members. Of these 110 are juniors and this
number is growing each year. The club’s future strength lies with its
juniors (with this in mind the club recently purchased a ball machine for the
training of juniors)
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2010
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Courts 1 & 2 are
resurfaced with rebound synpave
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