PROBUS WARRAWEE
Club No. 50510 - Inc. No. Y0222415
SINCE 1983
Updated: 16 January 2025
MEMBERSHIP: October 2024 = 90
Coming Events
For full details click on Warrawee Wrap
NEXT GENERAL MEETING:
Friday: 24th JANUARY 2025
10am. at THE WARRAWEE CLUB
Our speaker for January will be Norman King. Norman was a Qantas Boeing 707 Flight Engineer and has a general interest in Qantas and all aspects of aviation.
Norman’s talk is entitled, “AN AMAZING MOMENT DISCOVERING & RESTORING QANTAS’S FIRST JET AIRLINER”.
Norman discusses the discovery, restoration and the flight back to Australia of Qantas’s first jet airliner, a Boeing 707 purchased in 1959, which was found in a derelict state at Southend Airport in Essex in the UK.
Norman contributed to the restoration project at Committee level, spent 3 months in the UK on the spanners and flew back with the aeroplane across the Atlantic, the US and the Pacific with final delivery to Qantas Founders Outback Museum in Longreach, Queensland.
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NEW ACTIVITY - ZOOM FITNESS
Several members of our Club have for some time been participating in an excellent exercise class run by Mike Adams from the North Shore Gym in Pymble. This includes a weekly Zoom class - that's right, you follow the 1-hour class in your own home, 7am each Wednesday. Other members are now invited to join the Zoom class, at a modest charge.
More details are in the November WRAP; if you are interested, talk to
John Laird 0402 476 101
or Paul Gill 0418 363 585
FINANCE GROUP
Contact: Alan McDermid 0409 285 859
1st Friday bi-monthly
Next meeting Friday 7 February 2025
VENUE - The Warrawee Club
at 10am.
OUTINGS
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CINEMA and DINING
ROSEVILLE CINEMA
Contact Doug Chee: 0415 083 613
The first Tuesday and Wednesday evenings following the GM.
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Next event: 28th and 29th January 2025
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Details to be announced
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COFFEE GROUP
Contact: Paul Cook 0414891620
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Next - Thursday 9th January 2025
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Hornsby PCYC Cafe
1 Park Lane Waitara
at 10.00am
WINE and CHEESE GROUP
Contact: Roger Goozee 0405505339
Next - Tuesday 4th February 2025
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Details TBA
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ADVENTURE GROUP
Contact Rory Gray: 0427 660 135
or Richard White 0424 603 499
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Possible adventure for early February 2025
Afternoon ferry trip on Sydney Harbour following 18 footer races
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Details to be confirmed in due course
PHOTOGRAPHY
Contact (acting):
Bruce Hughes 0423 424 125
Third Thursday
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The next meeting will be on Thursday 16th January. Details TBA.
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COMPUTER GROUP
With Wahroonga Probus Group.
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3rd Tuesday of each month.
Next meeting Tuesday 21st January 2025
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Contact Paul Wood Wahroonga Probus
OR John Derrett at john@derrett.net.au
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FISHING GROUP
Contact: John Laird 0402476101
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Next - Friday 14th March 2025
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Details in January/February WRAP
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MUSIC GROUP
Contact: Howard Ferrer
Next - 2:00pm on Monday
3rd February 2025 by ZOOM.
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BOOK CLUB
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• Enquiries: Bill Killinger 0407 551 600
• Email: bkillinger@optusnet.com.au
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The next Book Club meeting is on Mon 24th February @ 10.00 am
Killara Golf Club – Lower Bar
Here are the currently nominated books:
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Operation Biting – Max Hastings - Nonfiction –– Thanks to John Marshall
The most thrilling of the British commando raids of World War II
The Kingpin and the Crooked Cop – Neil Mercer – Nonfiction – Thanks to Malcolm Agnew
Our most corrupt policeman and most notorious gangster
A Shorter History of Australia – Geoffrey Blainey - Nonfiction - Thanks to Bill K
A broad, concise and inclusive vision of Australia and Australians
All The World’s A Stage – Boris Akunin – Fiction – Thanks to John S White
The toast of Moscow society, a beautiful actress in an infamous theatre troupe.
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We meet, talk, drink beer/wine/coffee - have fun! Then a quick lunch.
WALK and EXPLORE
Contact: Geoff Donald 0419 561 031
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Next walk is Thursday 3rd February 2025
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Details to be announced in January
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LUNCHEONS
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Contact: Alan McDermid - 0409 285 859
John Crouch - 0403 599 078
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CULTURAL EVENTS
Cultural Events for 2025 yet to be determined.
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Enquiries: Bill Killinger 0407 551 600 Email: bkillinger@optusnet.com.au
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TOURS
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Contact: Bob Cooper - 0418 449 013
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Proposed tour in 2025
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NEW ZEALAND’S NORTH ISLAND – 4 TO 16 OCTOBER 2025
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A 14-day tour around the North Island,including Auckland, the Hokianga, Bay of Islands, Matakana, Rotorua, Taupo, with a final one night stop at Cambridge.
For details see September WRAP
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NICK's BOOK EXCHANGE
Contact: Ian Falconer: 0407 462170
Have you read a good book you think your fellow members, or their partners, might enjoy we suggest you pass it on at the General Meeting.
If you are looking for a specific author or book, please contact the "Warrawee Wrap" editor. He will publish the request in the next Warrawee Wrap.