HISTORY

The Bay of Plenty Times reported that on Monday, April 2, 1894 a meeting of gentlemen was held in the Tauranga Hotel to establish a social organisation to be named the Tauranga Club. The subscription was set at one guinea. Mr H.B. Johnston was elected as the founding President with Colonel Roberts as Vice President.

It was reported that on June 4, 1894 the first meeting of the Club was held in a comfortable furnished room at the Star Hotel on Devonport Road.

While the exact date is uncertain, the Club moved to its present site at 72 Devonport Road during the late 1920’s. From its founding there have been many well known Tauranga names associated with the Club.

While members are still mainly commercial and professional people, the emphasis of the Club has altered to meet today’s changing lifestyles.

Our new facility has been designed and built on the Club’s original, central city, Devonport Road site. Incorporated into a prestigious, high rise, apartment development, and retains the same commanding views of the beautiful Tauranga Harbour, as the old club rooms where so well known for.

In addition to panoramic vistas, Club members enjoy superbly appointed dining, function, internet, library, snooker and gymnasium amenities – all of which secure the Tauranga Club as a truly desirable destination.