President: Marilyn Laing, P O Box 124, Tokomaru. Ph 329 8762.

Vice-President: Dean Halford, 10 Redwood Grove, PN 4410. Ph 354 5795.

Secretary: Sue Eckworth, 1 Liddell St, Foxton 4814. Ph 06 363 8629.

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

Club E-mail Address: rebuspn@outlook.com

Mobiles: Marilyn 021 170 3112, Sue 021 947 667.

NEWSLETTER

2019

No. 5 May

NEXT MEETING: TUESDAY 4 June 2019 at 9.30 am, PN Community Leisure Centre, 569 Ferguson St.

Club Speaker: Rae Nicholls.

Guest Speaker: Major Rewai Te Kahu, Linton Military Camp.

Door Greeting: Milton Pedley, Helen Brown.

Kitchen Duty: Neil Andrews, Bob Isles.

Morning Tea: Ladies to bring a plate of food, please: Helen Brown, Sue Eckworth, Alison Gunning, Raewyn Hardman, Lorrene Langer. Phone Val 359 0274 at least one day before if you are unable to attend. Thank you.

THE REBUS CLUB OF PALMERSTON NORTH, NZ

Founded in 1984

REPORT ON THE 7 MAY 2019 MEETING OF THE CLUB

Visitors: President Marilyn Laing welcomed Jenny Tilson who has moved to Palmerston North.

Birthdays in May: Oline Ball, Ursula Schneider, Arch MacNeilage, Milton Pedley, Ray Trott, Don Webster. Congratulations.

Almoner’s Report: Best wishes to Yvonne Parkes and Shirley Wilson. President’s Report: Leisure Centre house-keeping. The Wildbase Centre outing had a good turnout. Thanks

to those who had the correct entry money; only two didn’t. Treasurer’s Report: Today is the last day to pay subs at $20; they will be $25 from tomorrow.

Secretary’s Report: Rebus NZ Calendar 2020 photo competition is on. Car window stickers available: 10 free to the Club, thereafter $1 each. AGM of Rebus NZ at the Community Leisure Centre PN, 24 May at 2pm.

Rebus NZ Inc: Chronicles & Club News (April). Eric’s Cinema: Thursday 23 May, 2 p.m. Elephant Walk. Lunch 12.30 p.m. at KR’s Café. Trips & Outings: Wed 15 May, Thompson Motorcycle Museum (Kopane) & Homeprint (Feilding). Wed 19

June, Massey Aviation School. Alaska cruise-tour in May 2020. Midwinter Lunch: Tuesday 2 July, 12 noon (after the Club meeting) at the Golden Time Restaurant. Dinner Group: Saturday 11 May, 5.30 p.m. at the Little Savanna Restaurant. Café Group: Tuesday 28 May at The Cooperage.

Club Speaker Dave Marshall joined the NZ Railways aged 15 as a cleaner working from 10 pm – 8 am. His first boss was lovely, the second not so. Dave’s dream was to become an engine driver. He worked his way through the ranks: fireman, then driver. He was posted to Hawera for 3 years and whilst there the goods train he was on had a derailment coming from the Patea freezing works back to Hawera. Another accident: hitting a car with nobody in it. The car had been stolen and abandoned on the rail line. Most drivers were very stern, but fair. Dave spent 40 years in the railways and only had one serious accident whilst a driver by going too fast at a point where a work party on the line had to jump to safety into a slimy pond to escape the train. Dave almost lost his job. Lots of interesting stories to tell; another talk would be great.

Guest Speaker was Lesley Courtney (PN Library archives). Archives are documents preserved for the future - most are kept in libraries and museums. We have a very good facility for the Archives here in Palmerston North, one of the best in NZ. They are on the second floor of the library. Lesley said working in the Ian Matheson City Archives was her best job ever . It is administered by the Heritage Team of which Lesley is one. There are photo collections, Pacifica / Maori, War and Heritage, used for researching history by anyone who wishes to use them. There is a new book of PN history being written using these archives. Community records are valued by the PNCC, they are the human face of archives. Jenny Hunt thanked Lesley for the talk and President Marilyn Laing presented her with a gift basket.

LUNCH GROUP: Saturday 8 June, 12 noon at the Speights Ale House, 27 Grey St. All members, spouses & friends welcome. Enquiries to Adrian 355 5203. Numbers at 4 June meeting, please.

ERIC’S CINEMA: Thursday 23 May, 2 p.m. 50 North St, Feilding. Film: Elephant Walk. (1954 USA drama. Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Finch.) Thursday 13 June, 2 p.m. Double feature: Norman Wisdom—His Story (2010 biography) + A Plumbing We Will Go (1940 USA comedy. Three Stooges.) Lunch before each show at KR’s Café, Fergusson St, Feilding at 12.30 p.m.

Arch’s Column

A police patrol car parked outside a local neighbourhood pub late in the evening. The officer noticed a man leaving the bar so intoxicated that he could barely walk. The man stumbled around the car park for a few minutes and tried his keys on five vehicles before finding his car. He was there for a few minutes while other patrons left the bar and drove off. Finally, he started the car, switched the wipers on and off (it was a fine dry night), flicked the indicators on and off, tooted the horn and then switched on the lights. He moved the vehicle forward a few metres then remained stationary for a few more minutes as some more vehicles left. At last the man pulled out of the car park and started to drive slowly down the road. The police officer followed in the patrol car with lights flashing, pulled the man over and carried out a breathalyser test. To his amazement, the breathalyser indicated no evidence of the man's apparently intoxicated state. The police officer said, ‘I'll have to ask you to accompany me to the police station - this breathalyser equipment must be broken.’ ‘I doubt it,’ said the man, ‘tonight I'm the designated decoy.’

————————————————————- • How come it takes so little time for a child who is

afraid of the dark to become a teenager who wants to stay out all night?

• No one ever says "It's only a game" when their team is winning.

NZ QUIZ Answers next page.

YVETTE WINIFRED CORLETT CNZM MBE (nee WILLIAMS), track & field athlete, was the first woman from New Zealand to win an Olympic gold medal and to hold the world record in the women's long jump. She was named "Athlete of the Century" on the 100th anniversary of Athletics New Zealand, in 1987 and was twice named the NZ Sportsman of the Year (1950, 1952.) She was inducted into the NZ Sports Hall of Fame in 1990. Yvette Williams won 21 national titles across 5 disciplines: shot put (1947–54), javelin (1950), discus (1951–54), long jump (1948–54) and the 80 m hurdles (1954). She died in Auckland on 13 April 2019, aged 89. (a) Where was Yvette Williams born? (b) When & where did she win her Olympic gold medal?

NOTICE BOARD

Happy Birthday

Oline Ball, Ursula Schneider, Arch MacNeilage, Milton Pedley, Ray Trott, Don Webster. May

OUTING: Wed 19 June, Massey University School of Aviation, Airport Drive. Meet there at 10 a.m. Lunch at Rumour Has It Café, 305 Rangitikei St. Numbers at 4 June meeting, please.

CAFÉ GROUP: Tuesday 28 May, 11.30 a.m. at The Cooperage, 723 Main St, PN. Enquiries to Lorrene 027 335 7217.

The first image of a BLACK HOLE was displayed recently. You can’t actually see a black hole (that’s why it has that name) – no light comes out of it. We know it’s there because the huge, dense mass of the black hole (the one displayed has a mass 6 billion times that of our Sun, crushed into a ball about the size of the Sun) is drawing surrounding gas & other matter into it at nearly light speed, making this “accretion disc” glow. Black hole physics uses a solution, obtained by NZ mathematician Roy Kerr, of Einstein’s equations of general relativity. There are possibly infinitely many black holes in the universe.

Laugh with Lorrene No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery.

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

A rubber band pistol was confiscated from the algebra class because it was a weapon of math disruption.

The fattest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.

In a democracy it's your vote that counts. In feudalism it's your count that votes.

WILDBASE RECOVERY CENTRE, PN

17 APRIL 2019

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!

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.

Rebus NZ Inc. Go to their web site rebus.nz for news-letters, club news, travel insurance information, events, official documents.

NZ QUIZ Answers (a) Dunedin. (b) 1952, Helsinki.

Good health and best wishes, Dean Halford

Regent on Broadway Book at EventTicketingCentre at the Regent or email bookings@regent.co.nz

Hypnotist—Andrew Newton. Sat 25 May 7.30 p.m. Senior $20. The Jazz Gala—International Jazz Festival. Sat 1 June 8 p.m. Adult $42. Black Swan, White Swan. RNZB. Wed 12 June 7.30 p.m. Senior $45—$88.20.

Centrepoint Theatre Performances Tue, Wed 6.30 p.m. Thu, Fri, Sat 7.30 p.m. Sun 4 p.m.

Bookings 354 5740 or at Box Office 280 Church St, PN or email hello@centrepoint.co.nz Surprise Birthday Musical. Sat 1—Sun 30 June. Senior $42 (show only).

Operatunity Life Church, 590 Featherston St. Bookings 0508 266 237 or bookings@operatunity.co.nz

The Dancing Years. Wed 3 July 11 a.m. $35 incl lunch ($32 pp Group 5+).

Globe Theatre Bookings 06 351 4409 or www.globetheatre.co.nz

Richard Gilewitz. Sat 18 May 7.30 p.m. Tickets $20 pp. Chamber Music NZ: The Brodsky Quartet. Sun 19 May 5 p.m. Senior $26—$46. Rock on at The Globe, for One Night In Africa! Sat 25 May 7.30 p.m. Tickets $22.

Andrea O’Donnell Residential Sales Consultant Palmerston North 06 351 2825 , 027 483 4211 realestateandrea.co.nz

Property Brokers 240 Broadway Ave Palmerston North propertybrokers.co.nz

Quote: ‘I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.’ Oscar Wilde.