NEXT MEETING: TUE 6 DECEMBER 2016, 9.30 am, PN Community Leisure Centre, 569 Ferguson St. Club Speaker: Neil Andrews. Guest Speaker: Margaret Tate on the Conscientious Objector Camps of Shannon. Door greeting. Adrian Turner & Marilyn Laing. Kitchen duty. Gordon Stuart & Roger Ball. Morning tea. Would these ladies please bring a plate of food: Helen Brown, Helen Davidson, Sue Eckworth, Ngaire Finkle, Janet McDonald. Phone Val 359 0274 at least one day before if you are unable to attend. Thanks. REPORT ON THE 1 NOVEMBER 2016 MEETING OF THE CLUB New member: Karin Moody was warmly welcomed and presented with her badge and brooch. Almoner’s Report: Good wishes were extended to Jim Howell and Lance Hogan. Treasurer’s Report: Payment for Wanganui trip due today. Secretary’s Report: Wendy Hobbs has resigned. New Club Rules on notice board. Committee meeting 13 November. Volunteer needed as Entertainment Organiser. Rebus NZ Inc: Chronicles (Oct) on notice board. Newsletter No. 20 – info about joining Rebus. Outings: Wed 9 November to Cross Hills Gardens. Car pool. Trip: Wed 23 November to Wanganui, cruise on river boat. No Guest Speaker. Instead, a very successful and enjoyable QUIZ was run by impeccable quizmaster Keith Eckworth. Two groups shared winning honours. Club Speaker Anne Halford was born in Christchurch and attended St Albans School and Avonside Girls’ High School to which she biked 11 km return across the city each day. Rationing during WW2 meant food was not always plentiful – she had a plot to tend in the vegetable garden. Pleasures like lollies and new clothes were unknown to Anne who received “hand-me-downs”. She recalls the rag-and-bone man, chimney sweep, and the whitebait hawker working the street. Family camps (Anne has six siblings) were memorable. At an early age Anne learnt to knit, darn, sew, embroider, cook and garden. Her father died when Anne was 13. Her mother, a florist, then gave Anne responsibility to make sprays, bunches of flowers and wedding bouquets, and also wreaths which she delivered to funeral parlours on her bike before school. Anne was a Girl Guide, attended an active church youth group, and was a voluntary leader at the YMCA. She married Dean in 1962 and moved to Palmerston North where the railway then ran through the city centre and there were 5 movie theatre buildings. She recalled many shops that no longer exist. Anne taught part-time for 18 years at St Peter’s College and had a dress-making business. Living in Toronto and Melbourne during Dean’s university sabbatical years were great family experiences. THE REBUS CLUB OF PALMERSTON NORTH NEWSLETTER November 2016 Number 11 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: [email protected] *** WANGANUI TRIP: Wednesday 23 November. River cruise. NOTE THE CHANGE OF DEPARTURE TIME: Coach departs Waldegrave St at 9 a.m. *** 2017 PROGRAMME. This will be available for collection at the 6 December meeting. If you are absent, a copy will be posted to you.
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NEXT MEETING: TUE 6 DECEMBER 2016, 9.30 am, PN Community Leisure Centre, 569 Ferguson St. Club Speaker: Neil Andrews. Guest Speaker: Margaret Tate on the Conscientious Objector Camps of Shannon. Door greeting. Adrian Turner & Marilyn Laing. Kitchen duty. Gordon Stuart & Roger Ball. Morning tea. Would these ladies please bring a plate of food: Helen Brown, Helen Davidson, Sue Eckworth, Ngaire Finkle, Janet McDonald. Phone Val 359 0274 at least one day before if you are unable to attend. Thanks.
REPORT ON THE 1 NOVEMBER 2016 MEETING OF THE CLUB
New member: Karin Moody was warmly welcomed and presented with her badge and brooch. Almoner’s Report: Good wishes were extended to Jim Howell and Lance Hogan. Treasurer’s Report: Payment for Wanganui trip due today. Secretary’s Report: Wendy Hobbs has resigned. New Club Rules on notice board. Committee
meeting 13 November. Volunteer needed as Entertainment Organiser. Rebus NZ Inc: Chronicles (Oct) on notice board. Newsletter No. 20 – info about joining Rebus. Outings: Wed 9 November to Cross Hills Gardens. Car pool. Trip: Wed 23 November to Wanganui, cruise on river boat. No Guest Speaker. Instead, a very successful and enjoyable QUIZ was run by impeccable quizmaster Keith Eckworth. Two groups shared winning honours. Club Speaker Anne Halford was born in Christchurch and attended St Albans School and Avonside Girls’ High School to which she biked 11 km return across the city each day. Rationing during WW2 meant food was not always plentiful – she had a plot to tend in the vegetable garden. Pleasures like lollies and new clothes were unknown to Anne who received “hand-me-downs”. She recalls the rag-and-bone man, chimney sweep, and the whitebait hawker working the street. Family camps (Anne has six siblings) were memorable. At an early age Anne learnt to knit, darn, sew, embroider, cook and garden. Her father died when Anne was 13. Her mother, a florist, then gave Anne responsibility to make sprays, bunches of flowers and wedding bouquets, and also wreaths which she delivered to funeral parlours on her bike before school. Anne was a Girl Guide, attended an active church youth group, and was a voluntary leader at the YMCA. She married Dean in 1962 and moved to Palmerston North where the railway then ran through the city centre and there were 5 movie theatre buildings. She recalled many shops that no longer exist. Anne taught part-time for 18 years at St Peter’s College and had a dress-making business. Living in Toronto and Melbourne during Dean’s university sabbatical years were great family experiences.
THE REBUS CLUB OF PALMERSTON NORTH
NEWSLETTER
November 2016
Number 11
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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: [email protected]
*** WANGANUI TRIP: Wednesday 23 November. River cruise. NOTE THE CHANGE OF DEPARTURE TIME: Coach departs Waldegrave St at 9 a.m. ***
2017 PROGRAMME. This will be available for collection at the 6 December meeting. If you are absent, a copy will be posted to you.
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
Christmas Humour Why is Christmas just like your job? You do all
the work and the fat guy with the suit gets all the credit.
What do you call people who are afraid of Santa Claus? Claustrophobic.
What do you call a singing elf with sideburns? Elfis.
How come you never hear anything about the 10th reindeer named Olive? Olive? You know, ‘Olive, the other reindeer, used to laugh and call him names.’
An honest politician, a kind lawyer and Santa Claus were talking when they all noticed a $5 note on the floor. Who picked it up? Santa of course, the other two don't exist!
It was Christmas and the judge was in a merry mood as he asked the prisoner, ‘What are you charged with?’ ‘Doing my Christmas shopping early’, replied the defendant. The judge asked, ’Why is that an offense? How early were you doing this shopping?’ ‘Before the store opened.’
Rebus NZ Inc. Go to their web site
rebus.nz for newsletters, travel insurance information, events, official documents.
Combined Web Site is 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. Men’s basketball in NZ began in the late 1920s. Ninety years on, four Kiwis have made it into the NBA in the US. In 2016 seven Australian teams and one NZ team contest the National Basketball League (NBL). What is the name of (a) the professional NZ team in the NBL, and (b) the NZ team in international competitions?
NZ QUIZ Answer: (a) NZ Breakers. (b) Tall Blacks.
SAMHAIN (pronounced 'Sow-In') is the ancient Celtic festival on which Halloween (‘All Hallows Eve’) is thought to be based. Samhain marks the end of harvest, a time when the veil between the living and the dead is supposedly at its thinnest. The Christian Allhallowtide, from 31 October to 2 November, remembers the dead including saints (hallows), martyrs and all the faithful departed.
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.
Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year
Dean Halford
LADIES GROUP: Meetings will recommence on Tuesday, 28 March 2017.
FEILDING CINEMA: Next visit Wed 7 December. Film Rear Window (1954 mystery thriller).
North St, 9.45 a.m.
Wednesday 14 December at The Chalet, 11.30 a.m. – 2.00 p.m. Cost $35 pp. Great menu. Punch provided. BYO wine. Musical entertainment by Maestro Milton. Bring a friend (or two) and enjoy this festive event together. Payment 6 December meeting please. Numbers to be confirmed then.
CHRISTMAS LUNCH
Treasurer’s request. Please remember to put payments for trips, etc into an envelope with your name & event details on the outside. Thank you.
HAWKES BAY TRIP, Wednesday 22 March 2017: Pioneer Norsewood Museum, lunch Waipukurau, tour lovely Wallingford Lodge and gardens with afternoon tea there. Cost to be advised at 6 December meeting. Be sure to be on this one!
TIRITEA WATER TREATMENT PLANT VISIT 19 OCTOBER 2016
Quote: ‘Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.’ Dr Johnson
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