​Club History

1946
THE STANLEY AND NAVY UNITED HOCKEY CLUB was formed by Sid Mainland, the Stanley Point Groundsman with 2 other stalwarts, Bill Oliver & Ken Darrow. The new club's base was Stanley Point where there were two of Auckland's best grass fields that were shared with the North Shore Women’s Hockey Club. There were two teams initially and they competed in the Auckland Senior B Competition in the Auckland Hockey Association (AHA) with its headquarters at Hobson Park.

​1957
The name of the Club was changed by deleting “and Navy United” and the Club became “THE STANLEY HOCKEY CLUB”. This was due to a markedly reduced Navy presence in the Club.​

​1958
Agreed that the Club colours would be bottle green shirts, white shorts and green hooped socks.

​1959
The Stanley Hockey Club amalgamated with Birkenhead Hockey Club and formed a Takapuna /Milford ward for a junior team rebranding as NORTH SHORE DISTRICTS HOCKEY CLUB.  

We used the Birkenhead War Memorial Park field for practices
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The Milford team was based initially on the fields that are now the Poynton Retirement village, moving to Milford school at the commencement of construction of the North Shore Hospital.

1967
An exciting new era for our Club as over the next few years we built clubrooms at Onewa Domain in conjunction with Takapuna Cricket Club on a 50/50-share basis which became our Headquarters. Geoff and Val Herbert, Bill Miller and Peter and Sherril Sowden (all life members) were the driving force for this growth in our prosperity.  This was our home until 1989/90. 

1969
Re-located our headquarters to a more central position at Onewa Domain where we had 2 men's grass fields.  
Working bee at Onewa Domain to assemble goals and finish marking out the fields.

1976
Takapuna Cricket Club (TCC) presented plans to our Club to build a 1400 square foot Clubhouse at an estimated cost of $12-$15000 with the shell being erected by a builder and the balance of sub-contracting work would be carried out by Club members. TCC already have $5-$6000 funds available now and if we agree to a partnership they would assist us in fundraising.
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Unanimously moved that “The North Shore Districts Hockey Club should commit themselves to joining with the Takapuna Cricket Club in construction of a Clubhouse in Onewa Domain for dual usage”. This is on a 50\50 basis.

1977
New Clubhouse Building update – April/May 1977 was still the planned building commencement date.

Motion that Club officially change the shorts from white to black was passed.

Every Saturday morning the Poenamo Hotel over the road give us a bottle of spirits with our weekly order –This is used in our “Player of the Day” award.

1978
Northcote\Glenfield Women’s Hockey Club was accepted as affiliate members of NSDHC at a fee of 50 cents per playing member.

1980
Takapuna City Council felt it was not worth spending the money on upgrading Onewa Domain due to the nature of the area it was built on and they told us that in the long term they are looking at an area near Rosedale Road Park for Hockey.​

Midway Hockey Club affiliated with us.

1982
Name changed to TAKAPUNA DISTRICTS HOCKEY CLUB by a new Constitution.

1984
The first year that the North Shore was permitted to have a team at the National Men’s Tournament. Initiative driven by the Takapuna Club.

1988
1988 was our last year in the Auckland competition.  We won the Senior Reserve grade competition that year.  Many of the young members of that winning side and that year’s senior side were to split up and form new clubs the following year, to form the basis for a new North Harbour Men's competition.  

Club made a donation of $1000 to the Astroturf appeal by NHHA.
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The first sod would be turned for the new NHHA Astroturf 5th of December at 10 am

Takapuna was instrumental in assisting the newly formed North Harbour Association financially in order to build the new sand turf.

​There was a great deal of controversy over the AGM proposal to donate $16,000 out of Club funds to the North Harbour Hockey Trust with the freezing of the Club’s bank accounts, threatened legal action, claims of an unconstitutional Annual General Meeting and much acrimony. A very heated subsequent Special General Meeting upheld the making of the donation 64 versus 51 votes. Four people immediately resigned from the Club Executive following the result of the vote.

1989
First year of the new North Harbour Men's competition.  Our whole club, then the only Men's club in North harbour, split with senior members going off to form new clubs - Bill Webb, Mark Dempster and Peter Escott to form ABC, Kevin McPheat and Mike Vallant to form Navy (then re-named Ariel and now ECB), Merv Huxford to form Hibiscus Dairy Flat and  to form Huapai (now NSU)

1993
 Amalgamated with Takapuna Ladies.

2008
Name changed to TAKAPUNA HOCKEY CLUB removing DISTRICTS