NEXT MEETING: TUESDAY 7 JUNE 2016, 9.30 a.m., PN Community Leisure Centre, 569 Ferguson St. Club Speaker: Helen Davidson. Guest Speaker: Chris Moody, PN Rescue Helicopter. Door greeting. Bryan & Jeanette Cooke. Kitchen duty. Gordon Stuart & Jim Walker. Morning tea. Would these ladies please bring a plate of food: Sue Eckworth, Ngaire Finkle, Marie Good, Janet McDonald. Phone Wendy 357 2779 at least one day before the meeting if you are unable to attend. Thank you.

REPORT ON THE 3 MAY 2016 MEETING OF THE CLUB:

Visitors: Helen Brown and Vanessa Hare were welcomed to the meeting. Name change: Moved (Keith Eckworth/Wendy Hobbs) that the name of this club be The Rebus Club

of Palmerston North. CARRIED. Almoner’s Report: Good wishes were extended to Allen Bloomfield and Lance Hogan. A warm

welcome back to Harry Lampen-Smith and Colin Rush. Secretary’s Report: New club name badges will be available next meeting. Manawatu Secretaries &

Treasurers Workshop 9 April: Thanks to Keith, Sue, Adrian, Anne & Val. Combined meeting 2 May. Rebus: Affiliation Certificate received. Constitution adopted. Regalia being sought. Outing: Awapuni Resource Recovery Park Wed 18 May. Lunch at Café Esplanade. Trips: Wellington Wed 1 June to Parliament & Wellington Museum. Bus $35 pp. Lunch at Bellamy’s

at own expense. Mystery Trip Wed 27 July.

Club Speaker Allan Inglis was born in Auckland where his parents and family of seven lived on a dairy farm. Allan attended Ranui Primary School and Henderson High School. He studied to be an electrician and got jobs in Opotiki, Tauranga and Kawerau where he became a sub-station operator with the NZ Electricity Corp. Subsequently he moved to Wanganui, Waverley (iron sand works), Atiamuri and back to Kawerau. From 1984-90 he was in Christchurch controlling a sub-station, then moved to Bunnythorpe sub-station, retiring in 2014. Married in 1971, Allan and his wife have a son and a daughter. In his younger days Allan played for the Waitemata Football Club and was a member of Bethel’s Beach Surf Club. Guest Speaker Victoria Gaither is a member of the Rebus Club of Foxton. From Washington DC, Victoria has been in NZ for two and a half years, living at Foxton Beach where she started International Connection Radio (ICR) in NZ www.icradio.info with partner Stuart Frith. The shows of 29 presenters worldwide are played on ICR which also does global news. Victoria is a news presenter who covered a wide range of events for ABC and NBC, including President Obama’s 1st & 2nd inaugurations and interviews with many celebrities visiting the US capital. After showing a video, Victoria told us about the American electoral process and the current presidential candidates. With vivacity and humour she explained what coping with NZ culture meant to her. This was a lively, interesting talk with insight and mirth. Excellent, Victoria.

THE REBUS CLUB OF PALMERSTON NORTH

NEWSLETTER

May 2016

Number 5

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POSTPONEMENT. The Outing on Wed 22 June to the Deer Story Museum, Manakau, is POSTPONED.

Lunch at the Café Esplanade.

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.

NOTICE BOARD

The Ten Tenors – Power of Ten. Sunday 29 May at 8 p.m. Regent on Broadway. $69 – $79 pp (Senior). Book 0800 224 224 or bookings@regent.co.nz

The Wizard of OZ – RNZ Ballet. Thursday 9 June 7.30 p.m. Regent on Broadway. $33.30 - $79.20 pp (Senior). Book 0800 224 224, bookings@regent.co.nz

Unity Singers – A World of Fantasy Variety Concert. Sunday 12 June 1.30 p.m. Regent on Broadway. Free admission. No reservations, ‘first come, first served’.

Arch’s Column It was many years ago since the embarrassing day when a young woman, with a baby in her arms, entered his butcher shop and confronted him with the news that the baby was his and asked what he going to do about it. Finally, he offered to provide her with free meat until the boy was 16. She agreed. He had been counting the years off on his calendar, and one day the teenager, who had been collecting the meat each week, came into the shop and said, ‘I'll be sixteen tomorrow.’ ‘I know,’ said the butcher with a smile, ‘I've been counting too. Tell your mother, when you take this parcel of meat home, that it is the last free meat she'll get, and watch the expression on her face.’ When the boy arrived home he told his mother. The woman nodded and said, ‘Son, go back to the butcher and tell him I have also had free bread, free milk, and free groceries for the last 16 years and watch the expression on his face.’

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 The first word in REBUS NZ INC is a contraction of the REtired BUSiness people who formed its Committee. What is the motto of Rebus NZ? Answer below.

NZ QUIZ Answer: The motto of Rebus NZ Incorporated is Steering a safe passage through our retirement years

REBUS is a Latin word meaning by things. In rebus puzzles a phrase is represented by things such as words or pictures, e.g. JOBINJOB represents “in between jobs”. A rebus in picture form was often used in the Middle Ages to denote surnames.

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: Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. Voltaire.

Mystery Trip: Wednesday 27 July. If you haven’t registered for this yet, please do so at 7 June meeting. IT WILL BE WORTH GOING – it has been carefully planned for your enjoyment.

Floral Workshop. Tuesday 24 May, 1 p.m. at Wendy Hobbs’ home, 53 Rosalie Tce, Kelvin Grove. All ladies welcome. Bring scissors & a blunt knife.

Activity groups. Fancy a game of cards, coffee outings, walking, the theatre, sewing, reading …? What would you like to do? Gather some others together and JUST DO IT. Over to you to take the initiative. Let John Patchett know what you decide.

Wellington Trip: Wednesday 1 June. Parliament & Wellington Museum. Lunch at Bellamy’s. Bus departs 9 a.m. from Waldegrave St. Please be there by 8.45 a.m. Thank you.

FEILDING CINEMA: Wed 15 June. Meet 50 North St, 9.45 a.m. Reach for the Sky (1956).

GLADSTONE 20 APRIL 2016: STONEHENGE, THE INN, THE WHEELWRIGHT