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THE REBUS CLUB OF PALMERSTON NORTH, NZ
Founded in 1984

President: Marilyn Laing, P O Box 124, Tokomaru. Ph 329 8762.
Vice-President: Dean Halford, 10 Redwood Grove, PN 4410. Ph 354 5795.
NEWSLETTER
Secretary: Sue Eckworth, 1 Liddell St, Foxton 4814. Ph 06 363 8629. 2019
Treasurer: Adrian Turner, 82 Florence Ave, PN 4414. Ph 355 5203.
Club E-mail Address: rebuspn@outlook.com No. 11 November
Mobiles: Marilyn 021 170 3112, Sue 021 947 667.

NEXT MEETING: TUESDAY 3 DECEMBER 2019 at 9.30 am,
PN Community Leisure Centre, 569 Ferguson St.
Club Speaker: Ursula Schneider.
No Guest Speaker. Instead, we have a QUIZ. Tone up that grey
matter! Fun for everyone!
Door Greeting: Bob & Desma Isles.
Kitchen Duty: John Thompson, Alan Martin.
Morning Tea: Ladies to bring a plate of food, please: Dawn McGreal,
Rae Nicholls, Alison Steele, Cherrill Suckling, Jenny Tilson. Phone Val 359 0274 at least one day before if you are
unable to attend. Thank you.

REPORT ON THE 5 NOVEMBER 2019 MEETING OF THE CLUB
 Welcome: President Marilyn Laing welcomed everyone.
 Birthdays in November: Alison Steele, Harry Lampen-Smith, Dave Hardman. Congratulations.
 Almoners’ Report: Nice to see Harry Lampen-Smith, Colin Rush & Shirley Wilson back.
 President’s Report: The Committee has been working hard on organising the programme for 2020. This is
now complete & ready for distributing at the December meeting. Thanks to all concerned.
 Treasurer’s Report: Adrian Turner presented the balance of accounts. An amount has been put aside for
replacement of Club equipment.
 Secretary’s Report: Notices of motion for the AGM 2020 must be given to the Secretary by the end of
November 2019.
 Rebus NZ Inc: Chronicles & Club News (October). The 2020 Rebus NZ calendar has arrived, there are still
two copies available.
 Eric’s Cinema: Thursday 21 November, 2 p.m. White Christmas. Lunch 12.30 p.m. at KR’s Café.
 Outing: Thursday 14 Nov (date change) to Tendertips asparagus farm, Levin. Car pool. Meet 9.30 a.m. at
Waldegrave St. Lunch Salt & Pepper Café.
 Dinner Group: Saturday 9 November 5.30 p.m. at Amayjen Restaurant, Feilding.
 Café Group: Tuesday 26 November 11.30 a.m. at Cobb & Co, Levin.
Club Speaker Shirley Wilson was born in Wanganui 1934 of Yorkshire parents. Her father was an ICI chemist. After
several years in India he accepted a post in NZ in 1932 at the Wanganui woollen mills. Her mother followed six months later
& they were married the day she disembarked. After moves to Australia and Auckland, they were in Milton, south of
Dunedin, in 1939. Shirley grew up there during the war years. When Shirley was 14, her mother had another daughter, the
only sibling. They moved to Palmerston North in 1949. Shirley went to PN Girls’ High School, then at 15 became an
apprentice milliner, finishing her time in Auckland. In 1955 she married Barry Spencer & whilst he built their house they
lived in the garage. They had two children. Shirley took up dressmaking to supplement the housekeeping budget, making
everyday clothes but specialising in wedding dresses. She worked at Bernina taking stretch sewing classes. After her
marriage broke up, Shirley took a fulltime job at Alexander Clark as décor coordinator. She then married Alan Wilson and
worked in Guthrie Bowron’s paint shop with him. In 1992 they opened a shop, Decorator Court, on Broadway but it closed
four years later. Shirley went back to millinery, making hats for Catwalk. She had great successes at Fashion in the Field,
Melbourne Cup & won Easter Bonnet at Ellerslie. Shirley was the first Lotto lady in PN. She still lives on the same plot of
land (65yrs) in Totara St. Her passion is her garden. She has been President of the Awapuni Garden Club twice & now looks
after the library. She has two children, 7 grandchildren & 3 great-grandchildren. Report continued on Page 3.

NOTICE BOARD Arch’s Column
Happy Birthday One Sunday morning, a pastor decided to do
something a little different. He said, 'Today in church
Dave Hardman, Harry Lampen- I am going to say a single word and you are going to
November Smith, Alison Steele. help me preach. Whatever single word I say, I want
December Anne Halford, Bernard Watson. you to sing whatever hymn that comes to your mind.’
The pastor shouted out 'CROSS.' Immediately the
OUTING: Thursday 14 November (DATE CHANGE) to congregation started singing in unison, 'THE OLD
Tendertips asparagus farm, Levin. Lunch at Salt & RUGGED CROSS.'
Pepper Café, Levin. Car pool. Meet at Waldegrave St The pastor hollered out 'GRACE.' The congregation
car park at 9.30 a.m. Depart at 9.45 a.m. began to sing 'AMAZING GRACE, how sweet the
sound.'
The pastor said 'POWER.' The congregation sang
ERIC’S CINEMA: Thursday 21 November, 2 p.m. 'THERE IS POWER IN THE BLOOD.'
50 North St, Feilding. Film: White Christmas (1954 The pastor said 'SEX.' The congregation fell into total
USA musical, comedy, romance. Bing Crosby, silence. Everyone was in shock. They all nervously
Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney.) began to look around at each other afraid to say
Lunch before at KR’s Café, Fldg, at 12.30 p.m. anything.
Then all of a sudden, way from the back of the
church, a little 87 year-old grandmother stood up and
CAFÉ GROUP: Tuesday 26 November, 11.30 a.m. at
began to sing 'MEMORIES.'
Cobb & Co, cnr Oxford Street & Durham Street,
Levin. Enquiries to Lorrene 027 335 7217.

DINNER GROUP: No outing in December. CHRISTMAS LUNCH
Wednesday 11 December, Wharerata,
Massey University. Excellent Menu:
CHRISTMAS HUMOUR Roast chicken, lemon & thyme savoury stuffing, gravy.
Traditional baked ham, roasted pineapple, mustards.
Lisa said to her grandpa, ‘Thank you Grand- New potatoes with chives, parsley & sour cream.
pa for the violin you gave me last Christmas. Baby carrots with honey glaze. Peas with mint.
I've never had such a brilliant gift!’ Traditional fruit pudding, brandy custard & vanilla bean
‘Really?’ asked the surprised Grandpa. whipped cream.
Fresh fruit salad.
‘Yes,’ said Lisa. ‘Every time I start playing, Mum gives Ebony filtered coffee & a range of Dilmah herbal teas.
me two dollars so I would stop!’
Maestro Pedley on the piano—thanks Milton.
• What do you call an elf wearing ear muffs? Anything you Cost $37 pp includes bus fare. Meet at
want. He can’t hear you! Waldegrave St car park at 11 a.m. Bus departs
11.10 a.m. PLEASE USE THE BUS. Parking is very
limited on campus. Payment to Adrian by 3
JAMES COOK made landfall in Poverty Bay near Gisborne December meeting, please.
on 8 October 1769. Born 1728 in
Marton, Yorkshire, he joined the
Royal Navy in 1755. Lieutenant
Cook was appointed to command
NZ QUIZ Answer last page.
HMS Endeavour on a scientific CHRISTMAS FOOD. In 1769, Cook & the crew of HMS
expedition to the Pacific Ocean, to Endeavour feasted on ‘goose pye’ for Christmas dinner
observe the transit of Venus across while battling heavy seas off the top of the North Island.
the sun in Tahiti and to search for The ‘goose’ was a gannet that had been shot by the ship’s
the fabled great southern botanist, Joseph Banks. Apparently, the crew spent Boxing
continent. Cook named this Day ‘nursing hangovers’ (as is still common!). New
country New Zealand, anglicising its 17th Century Dutch Zealanders mix northern hemisphere Yuletide traditions
name Nieuw Zeeland. In his remarkably accurate charting with some of our own. Turkey, roast vegetables & plum
of NZ, Cook named more coastal landmarks than any other duff vie with lamb on the BBQ, salad, trifle & pavlova. We
person. Mt Cook and Cook Strait are named after him as eat Christmas cake, fruit mince pies, nuts, muscatels,
well as many districts, suburbs, schools, hotels, motels and stollen, gingerbread, truffles, chocolates & cherries.
consumer products. Earlier NZ banknotes bore his image. • Where does stollen come from?

REPORT ON THE 5 NOVEMBER 2019 MEETING OF THE CLUB (CONTINUED)
Roll Caller Arch MacNeilage went to Piriaka Primary the Norwegian Army, maintaining check points between
School. He loved reading classes with the teacher’s wife – borders. These were the first NZ Army ops overseas since
she gave them boiled lollies. School sports were held at the Vietnam War. When Yugoslavian President Tito died,
Kakahi & Manunui (swimming pool). Arch has one school unrest & then war came to Bosnia. The NZ force was part of
friend still alive & they keep in regular contact. Piriaka had the British Infantry Battalion.
three industries: a dairy factory with 3 lorries to cart butter On retiring from the army as a staff sergeant, James joined
to the rail, an abattoir & a hydro-electric power station. Fonterra as an environmental site manager based at
Arch delivered newspapers for two shillings a week. Longburn. Every kilo of product made uses large amounts
Outings to Taumarunui to the movies & an ice cream were of water drawn from a bore. Fonterra processes 3.6 million
a highlight. Arch won the steeplechase at high school one litres of milk daily. Twenty-one tankers collect 3.2 million
year with a 5-minute start. A friend from high school asked litres per day. They load out 768,000 litres by rail to
him to deliver a speech at his wedding in Christchurch; it Whareroa (near Hawera) daily for further processing into
was a ‘no alcohol’ event and he could have done with a higher value products. At Longburn they have a casein
beer to steady his nerves. It was a long way to go for a plant & a whole-milk reverse osmosis concentration plant.
short wedding and Arch has never seen him again. Arch Goodman Fielder Ltd produces 1.2 million litres of
made some good friends at school. “Stick to old friends, wastewater per day; Fonterra is contracted to dispose of
they are the best.” To be continued. this. Each day, 3.2 million litres of wastewater is irrigated
to farmland. They have consent to discharge treated water
Guest Speaker James Good was was brought up on a into the river from 1 May to 31 October each year.
dairy farm. He spent 25 years 1987 – 2012 in the NZ Army Contaminants are removed beforehand. The sludge is
Infantry Regiment, including operational tours of duty in injected into farmland. Fonterra owns 260 ha of land
1995 at Multinational Force & Observers Sinai and 2006 – surrounding the Longburn plant. Jenny Hunt thanked
2007 in Bosnia based at Santici Kiwi Camp combined with James and Marilyn Laing presented him with a gift basket.

TELEPHONE SCAMS
One of the latest is supposedly from “Spark”. An
electronic voice will tell you that Spark will cut off
Laugh your landline & internet if you do not reply by
“pushing button 1”. If you get such a call, HANG
with UP IMMEDIATELY. It is a scam. DO NOT REPLY –
Lorrene DO NOT PUSH ANY NUMBERS. They want to
access your account and take your money.

Quote: ‘America is the only country where a significant proportion of the population believes that professional
wrestling is real but the moon landing was faked.’ David Letterman.

THINKING CAPS ON …
Can you divide the shape into two identical parts using one single line?
The line does not have to be continuously straight.

Jim’s Jests Common Misconception About Food
Q: Should I cut down on meat and eat more vegetables?
A: You must grasp logistical efficiencies. What does a cow eat? Grass and hay.
And what are these? Vegetables.
So a steak is nothing more than an efficient mechanism of delivering vegetables to your system. Need
grain? Eat chicken.
Beef is also a good source of grass (green leafy vegetable).
And a pork chop can give you 100% of your recommended daily allowance of vegetable products.

WELLINGTON TRIP 16 OCTOBER 2019

                                                                                                 Gallipoli exhibition
                             Birds at Zealandia.                                                 figures at Museum
                             Photos: Lorrene Langer.                                             of NZ (Te Papa).
                                                                                                 Photos: Dean Halford.

                                  Regent on Broadway
                                  Book at EventTicketingCentre at the Regent or email bookings@regent.co.nz
                                  THE FRONTM3N. Sat 16 November 7.30 p.m. Tickets $79 -$99.
                                  The Bee Gees Night Fever. Thu 21 November 8 p.m. Adult $61.30 -$71.30.
                                  Messiah—PN Choral Society. Sat 30 November 7.30 p.m. Senior $27.
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
MAMIL. Sat 9 November—Sat 14 December. Senior $37 (show only).
Operatunity Life Church, 590 Featherston St. Bookings 0508 266 237 or bookings@operatunity.co.nz
Christmas at the Proms. Wed 11 December, 11 a.m. $35 pp incl lunch ($32 pp group 5+).

Globe Theatre Bookings 06 351 4409 or www.globetheatre.co.nz
Palmy Comedy Festival. Fri 15—Sat 23 November. Times vary by date. Prices vary. Check web site for info.
Gilbert & Sullivan on Tour. Fri 20 December 11 a.m. & 7.30 p.m. Senior $15.

COMBINED CLUBS WEB SITE                 PUZZLE ANSWER:                                         REBUS NZ INC. Web site
www.sema4manawatu.com is                                                                       rebus.nz for newsletters,
run     by     Richard    Scott                                                                club news, travel insur-
(Fitzherbert Rebus Club) for                                                                   ance information, events,
the 15 clubs in our local area.                                                                official documents.
There you can find news-
letters, information and links
to other relevant web sites.

                                                                             NZ QUIZ Answer: Weihnachtsstollen is a
                 Andrea O’Donnell                  Thanks to Property        traditional German bread eaten at
                 Residential Sales Consultant      Brokers Real Estate       Christmas. It is a fruit bread of nuts, spices
                 Palmerston North                  for sponsoring our        and dried or candied fruit, coated with
                 06 351 2825 , 027 483 4211        newsletter. If you        powdered or icing sugar.
                 realestateandrea.co.nz            want information
                                                   about the property
                 Property Brokers
                 240 Broadway Ave Palmerston
                                                   market, please give
                                                   Andrea O’Donnell a        Merry Christmas & Happy New Year
                 North
                 propertybrokers.co.nz             call on 351 2825.         Dean Halford