NEXT MEETING: TUE 1 NOVEMBER 2016, 9.30 am, PN Community Leisure Centre, 569 Ferguson St. Club Speaker: Anne Halford.

Guest Speaker: None. Instead, we will have a QUIZ. Tone up that grey matter! Fun for everyone! Door greeting. Milton Pedley & Judy Mabey. Kitchen duty. Gordon Stuart & Dave Marshall. Morning tea. Would these ladies please bring a plate of food: Marie Good, Marilyn Laing, Judy Mabey, Hazel Marshall, Val Morrison. Phone Val 359 0274 at least one day before if you are unable to attend. Thank you.

REPORT ON THE 4 OCTOBER 2016 MEETING OF THE CLUB

New members: Sue Hall was warmly welcomed and presented with her badge and brooch. Visitor: Karin Moody. Almoner’s Report: Gordon Stuart was welcomed back. Good wishes were extended to Jim Howell

and Lance Hogan. Secretary’s Report: Committee meeting 9 October. Suggestions sought for 2017 programme.

Volunteer needed as Entertainment Organiser. Rebus NZ Inc Chronicles (Sep) on notice board – automatic voting right for presidents from Apr 2017. President’s Report: Thanks to those members who helped at the 3 Oct Combined Meeting. Next

year’s Committee (March 2017 AGM) – start thinking of nominees. Outings: Wed 19 October to PNCC Water Treatment Plant. Wed 9 November to Cross Hills Gardens. Trip: Wed 23 November to Wanganui, cruise on river boat. List open. Cost to be finalised. Thanks from Milton Pedley to Keith & Sue Eckworth, organisers of the trip to Govt House & WWI Ex.

Club Speaker Marie Good was born in Levin. Her Oxfordshire-born father was a salesman and travelled a lot throughout the lower North Island. Marie’s mother worked in Kirkcaldie & Stain’s store in Wellington. She was an excellent seamstress. The family moved to Koputaroa during the Depression. Marie remembers the WWII trenches in the garden. Marie attended Koputaroa School and Horowhenua College. She got a job with a Levin legal firm and biked 6 miles to work. Then, in 1960, she married Alister and they had three sons and a daughter. They led a farming life in Bunnythorpe, Rata and at several locations in Taranaki. Marie joined the WDFF. She took on office management and teacher-aide work in schools over a period of 25 years in Taranaki, Rongotea and Foxton where she joined the Foxton Probus Club. Moving to Palmerston North, Marie is a part-time teacher aide at Terrace End School. She enjoys gardening, knitting and making pickles. Guest Speaker Russell Tether is a Committee member of Rebus NZ Inc. He outlined its pledges to affiliated clubs. Russell entertained us with stories about his recent trip to England and Eire. He gave an account of the history of Sevenoaks in Kent, a village in which the Archbishop of Canterbury established his residence at Knole in the 11th C. Sevenoaks today has a population of about 25,000. Russell attended a meeting of the men-only Sevenoaks Probus Club which has 450 members. Protocol is formal. Meetings are held in a pub with drinks before a meal, then a speaker. Club walks are encouraged (no wives or dogs, so as to avoid problems in the inns!). Russell visited Leeds Castle for an outdoor performance by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra which featured the Spitfire Overture and a WWII Spitfire aircraft fly-over.

THE REBUS CLUB OF PALMERSTON NORTH

NEWSLETTER

October 2016

Number 10

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President: Keith Eckworth, 1 Liddell St, Foxton 4814. Ph 06 363 8629.

Vice-President: Sue Eckworth, 1 Liddell St, Foxton 4814. Ph 06 363 8629.

Secretary: Dean Halford, 10 Redwood Grove, PN 4410. Ph 354 5795.

Treasurer: Adrian Turner, 82 Florence Ave, PN 4414. Ph 355 5203.

Club E-mail Address: rebuspn@outlook.com

NOTICE BOARD

CENTREPOINT THEATRE: The Streaker - a comedy. 4 Nov – 17 Dec. Wed 6.30 p.m., Thur – Sat 8 p.m., Sun 5 p.m. $32 pp (Senior, show only). Book 354 5740 or www.centrepoint.co.nz

Arch’s Column I am a Seenager. I have everything that I wanted as a teenager, only 60 years later. I don’t have to go to school or work, I get an allowance every month. I have my own pad. I don’t have a curfew. I have a driver’s license and my own car. I have ID that gets me into bars and the whisky store. The people I hang around with are not scared of getting pregnant. And I don’t have acne. Life is great.

------------------------------------------------------ A Pommy bloke calls at Australia House in London to get a visa to visit family in Australia. Chap behind the counter asks, “Do you have a criminal record?” Pommy bloke sighs and asks, “Is that STILL a requirement?"

Rebus NZ Inc. Go to their web site

rebus.nz for newsletters, travel insurance information, events, official documents.

Combined Web Site run by Richard Scott (Fitzherbert Club) for the 14 clubs in our local area. There you can find newsletters, information and links to other relevant web sites. Address: www.sema4manawatu.com Go there!

Photos of Christmas Lunch 17.12.14

NEW ZEALAND QUIZ Answer below. G M Snelson was the first Mayor of Palmerston North (1877). There have been 29 mayors. Longest serving: A E Mansford (16 years, 1931-47). Five mayors were MPs. Name the two women mayors and their years of service.

NZ QUIZ Answer: Jill White 1998 – 2001. Heather Tanguay 2004 – 2007.

USA PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 2016. Citizens 18+ years old vote 8 Nov. Electoral College vote 19 Dec. Inauguration Day 20 Jan. Since 1789 there have been 44 presidents: 8 died in office (4 of them assassinated). Candidates must be natural born US citizens, 35+ years old, resident for 14+ years.

Thanks to Property Brokers Real Estate for sponsoring our newsletter. If you want information about the property market, please give Andrea O’Donnell a call on 351 2825.

Good health & best wishes

Dean Halford

Quote: ‘When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.’ Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Outing: Wed 9 November to Cross Hills Gardens, Kimbolton. Car pool. Cost $5 per passenger. Depart Waldegrave St at 10 a.m. Lunch at Cross Hills Café.

LADIES GROUP: Tue 25 October, 10.30 a.m. at the Horseman’s Café, Shannon.

FEILDING CINEMA: Next visit Wed 7 December. Film Rear Window (1954 mystery thriller).

North St, 9.45 a.m.

Wanganui Trip: Wed 23 November. River cruise. Dep Waldegrave St at 9.30 a.m. Cost $57 pp (incl coach + boat. Lunch extra.). Please pay at 1 Nov meeting or contact Adrian now 355 5203 to arrange payment.

Wednesday 14 December at The Chalet, 11.30 a.m. – 2.00 p.m. Cost $35 pp. Great menu, great value! Punch provided. BYO wine. Musical entertainment by Maestro Milton. Bring a friend (or two). Payment 6 December meeting please.

CHRISTMAS LUNCH

JACKSON’S WWI EXHIBITION (OLD DOMINION MUSEUM) & GOVERNMENT HOUSE 21 SEPTEMBER 2016