ST HELIERS LADIES PROBUS CLUB

President Barbara Carr

Tuesday 10th June 2025 2pm at the Community Centre 100 St Heliers Bay Rd.

Today we have Jenny Lynch speaking to us again. Her talk this time is titled Lamson Tubes, a Celebrity Parrot and Exploding Face Powder and is about the history of Auckland Department Stores. I’m sure we all remember those magic tubes that whisked away our payment and the receipt and any change turned up a little while later.

Tuesday 17th June Movie outing. TBA. We may know by our meeting.

Tuesday 24th June, 10:30 Coffee. The Terraces at St Andrews. Judy has arranged for there to be morning tea goodies available. Meeting here is quiet and it is possible to move around and speak to more of your Probus friends than when we are seated at an oblong table.

Last month Sharon was taken in by the explosive detector dog that visited us.

Upcoming events

Mid Winter birthday lunch, Tuesday 8th July 12 noon at Wellingtons, Waipuna Lodge. This takes the place of our usual monthly meeting. The cost is still $40 pp. with drinks at personal expense. Today is the deadline for registering for this luncheon. If you can’t make it to todays meeting and want to go, please reply to this newsletter and I can let Robyn know. We must have the payment in our account by Friday or give cash to Valerie today so she can pay the deposit. Our bank account is The St Heliers Ladies Probus Club 03 0263 0059274

It is important for us to minimise the number of cars so please note whether you need a ride or can offer one in the trip book.

Tulip Time at Eden Gardens. We are looking into this for our August trip.

PROBUS SOUTH PACIFIC

We now have 49 members registered with Probus South Pacific, our parent organisation. From your annual subscription we pay a capitation fee of $10. Apart from the Probus branding this membership gives us support and has many advantages for individual members. These include “Trade Travel” and “The Travel Ware-house”, “Millennium”, “Copthorne” and “Kingsgate” and “Mantra Group” hotels and “Golden Chain” motels and travel insurance. The full information is attached to this email. If you want a printed copy please let me know.

PSPL also publishes the “Active Retirees” magazine which is available today with interesting articles and there are often more discounts available .

All our ladies who were new members at the beginning of the ‘24 year have received a membership card, and your membership number is all you need to get these discounts. If you have misplaced yours, tell Barbara as she is looking into how to get replacements. Ladies who joined later in ’24 and earlier this year will be receiving their cards soon.

Looking forward to seeing everyone on Tuesday.

Lorna