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It was a huge day of rugby at Mahurangi RFC on Saturday, June 15, with three home victories as the club celebrated 30 years since Kaipara Flats, Omaha and Warkworth merged and joined the North Harbour competition.
Three of the original founding members, Dave Cash (Warkworth), Dennis Sullivan (Kaipara Flats) and Ian Ward (Omaha) celebrated by cutting a cake in front of a crowd of fans and sponsors.
President Chris Jujnovich said it took years for the formation committee to bring three clubs together ‘that basically hated each other’, but have since managed to work incredibly well.
North Harbour president John McKittrick was in attendance and congratulated the club on being one of the most well governed and for having Harbour Rugby’s first female chair, Charmaine Gravatt.
Gravatt said that despite being the most northern club, and only having one feeder college, Mahurangi maintains 300 junior players, 130 college level, and 60 senior players, all of whom contributed an outstanding performance on the day.
She thanked the community members who kept the club running as well as the long-loyal sponsors.
“When Judy washes big Al Mason’s clothes she must wonder ‘how big is this guy’s pockets?’ because he always digs deep for our sports clubs,” she said, referring to Al Mason of Mason Containers.
