Interest Groups
Coffee & Chat
Coffee & Chat
Jan Cheney 0400 889 705
Being the third Tuesday in the month, our next get-together will be on Tuesday 17th of March at 10.00am at
Olive Lane Café in the North Balwyn Village Shopping Centre in Doncaster Road.
We regularly have some dozen or so members attending. It is a very pleasant way for newer members to get to know their fellow members and have an enjoyable chat and coffee, at the same time.
You can contact me by text (0400 889 705) or email (jancheney@bigpond.com)to let me know of your attendance.
Or - just turn up! You will be made most welcome to this regular informal get-together.
We look forward to you joining us then.
Treasurers Report
Treasurer’s Report
John Lagzdins - 0434 870 199
Subscription Reminder
Dear Probus members,
The Club’s Annual General Meeting on March 2nd approved the ordinary member subscription rate for 2026/27 to be $75.00 per member (unchanged from 2025).
In accord with the new Constitution passed by members at the AGM, payment is due by March 31st.
It would be appreciated if Electronic Funds Transfers (EFT) could be made by that date, ensuring that your details are entered in the reference field. It would be helpful if you can also send me a brief confirming note by
email or SMS.
Payments to Auburn Probus can be made either by EFT to our new bank account with Bendigo Bank or a visit to any of their branches.
BSB: 633 000
Account name: Combined Probus Club of Auburn
Account Number: 240 474 353
For any matters requiring my attention my details are:
email: Lagzdins@melbpc.org.au phone: 0434 870 199
Auburn Probus treasurer’s report for the month to 20th February 2026.
The bank balance is $7,504.97 including the $1,760 grant from Council.
In the month to date we banked $2,130.00 for two outings and footy tipping of $30.00.
We paid out $2,130.00 for outings scheduled for March and April and minor expenses of $40.00.
The rent for the meeting room for $500.00 is unpaid.
The AGM meeting will report a surplus of $549.77 for the year to December 31st.
John Lagzdins Email: Lagzdins@melbpc.org.au
Our New Bank Account Details are: Bendigo Bank: BSB - 633 000 Account No. - 240 474 353
If paying any EFT or cash to this account please include your name for reference
Boroondara Symphonic Band
Auburn Probus Club supports the Boroondara Symphonic Band
Colin Richards
SUNDAY 22ND MARCH 2.30pm Summer Festival Concert at Holy Trinity Kew.
Come along and enjoy this free concert.
Golf
Golf Group
Gary Jackson
In March we move to Wattle Park Golf Course, with a Tee off time for Tuesday 3rd and Mondays 9th (no game scheduled for Labour Day week) 16th, 23rd and 30th is 9.40am.
Golf results for February
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Date |
Weekly Winner |
Longest Drive |
Nearest the Pin |
Best off the stick |
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3/2 |
Einhart Lincke |
Gary Jackson |
- |
Mike Pavey |
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9/2 |
Gary Jackson |
Mike Pavey |
- |
Mike Pavey |
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16/2 |
Gary Jackson |
Sue Harris |
- |
Mike Pavey |
Brew & Chew
Brew and Chew
Ian Phillips 0428 858 272
As Easter has passed, our thoughts have to turn to the next celebration - this Anzac-day, and so, to the first Anzac day.
That campaign in 1915 began by an attempt to bring about “regime change” by forcing open a strait, in that case Ottoman Turkey and the Dardanelles. That didn’t end well!
The similarities then and now are well explored in an essay, late March, from the Australian Naval Institute entitled “Mines lessons from the Dardanelles 1915”. It is responsible and well put together and generally a rewarding Google search.The essay draws on strategic wisdom for the time of Nelson (“A ship is a fool to fight a fort.”). In essence, well-defended and mined straits can only be forced at considerable cost, if at all. Naval attempts in 1915 failed with the loss of a number of British warships, (despite the success of an Australian submarine in inflicting some damage), leading to the alternative disaster of attempting a land-based victory by landing at Gallipoli.
But, of course, it will all be very different now (irony intended)!
So faced with the prospect of on-going constrained oil supplies, various worthies have agitated for oil exploration here, presuming, not unreasonably, that the normal life will be so slow in returning that we will have time to fill our bowsers from wild-cats.
Desperate times lead to desperate measures – in dire straits (pun intended), from 1942, a joint Federal and State enterprise dug a shaft (!) twelve feet in diameter and twelve hundred feet deep to the layers that seeped oil at Lakes Entrance (where oil traces had been observed for years), and then drilled laterally – the recovered crude was then hauled to the surface in buckets!
As it unlikely we can extract a toll on ships passing through our Bass Strait, we had better get back to securing our own supply of oil somehow – we will have time to do this so long as oil can pass from the Gulf of Mexico (sorry, Gulf of America) via Panama, assuming that doesn’t blow up too. But, by the time Brew & Chew meets at the Camberwell library (the fourth Wednesday of each month), the “war” will be over we are told, so there will be something else to talk about – the football perhaps.
Ian Phillips – irp@alphalink.com.au 7 April 2026
Armchair Travel
Armchair Travel
Convenor: Shirley Fenemor
Happy New Year Travellers. I trust you are all fit and ready to travel with us again. This month, Wednesday 25th February 7:30pm, David Brown will be taking us to Dalmatia and he has prepared some information for you.
As usual we are meeting at Manningtree in Hawthorn and parking will be available in the forecourt. If you need further information please do not hesitate to contact me.
Well, here we go again! 4th Wednesday is 25th of March and we will meet as usual at Manningtree, 20-26 Manningtree Road, Hawthorn.
Parking is usually available in the forecourt. This month Tom will be presenting on our trip to Spain, Portugal and England. This is a repeat presentation from some time ago but you may have forgotten it anyway !!??.
Walking Group
The Walking Group meets twice a month usually on the 2nd and 4th Monday.
Rita Hayes 0417 988 859 & Helga O’loughlin 0427 829 000
Rita and I are just starting on this activity so we issue a warm welcome to everyone.
We are open to ideas on how we can we make it enjoyable for all.
The 9th of March is a Holiday (Labour Day) so no walking.
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23rd of March I have chosen the Yarra River Walk, leaving at 10.00 am. Please arrive at 9.50 am, Hotel Amora, 649 Bridge Rd. Richmond (photo left). Transport: Tram # 75 Stop 23 Yarra Boulevard/Bridge Road. Tram # 48 Stop 23 Cars (Melway ref: 45 H9) use side streets - 2 hour parking available. Our walk will be a moderate and beautiful one no steps except a little incline. Rita will be away on holiday, so I will be your tour Leader. Any enquiries, text or phone me. |
Outings Group
Outings
Sandy Tilley 0460 678 668 & Annette Brownscombe 0418 400 352
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FERRY TRIP TO PORT ARLINGTON On Thursday the 12th of March, an enjoyable day was had by the sixteen members who travelled on the ferry to Port Arlington. The weather was ideal and we all managed a walk around the township after having lunch at the Port Arlington Golf Club. |
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GEORGES REMEMBERED - Thursday 16th of April at 1.15pm The event will be held in The Chandelier Room (right) Hawthorn Arts Centre, 360 Burwood Road, Hawthorn from 1.15pm. Arrival time is suggested from 12.45pm. Raffle tickets will be on sale and afternoon tea will be served in the foyer after the event. Twenty six members have booked and paid to attend. There is a small possibility one or two tickets may become available so if you missed out speak to Pat Davies. |
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BUS TRIP TO MT DANDENONG - TUESDAY 26th of MAY. A bus trip to Mt Dandenong is planned but as yet not all details have fallen into place. We will be picked up from The North Balwyn Bowls Club about 9.30am. Visit the lookout at the Sky High restaurant (above) and have lunch at The Mount Dandenong Hotel (right) before returning to the bowls club. Hopefully it will be a fine day and some autumn trees will still be in colour. It is still to be approved by the committee but I am hoping with a part grant for the bus it will cost about $25.00 each. Lunch is to be paid for separately to the hotel. At least twenty two people registered an interest in the trip at the March meeting and we need thirty to forty to make the bus cost viable. |
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ACTIVITIES COMING UP Wednesday 5th August at 2pm - The Round Theatre, Nunawading. The Australian Ballet School performance. Cost $24 Tickets need to be paid by June monthly meeting. Wednesday 26 August at 11am - The Round Theatre, Nunawading. Tenori: Moment by Moment Show cases the talents of three of Queensland’s power house singers as they sing the classics from opera, music theatre and jazz in a highly polished performance. Cost $24.00. Tickets need to be paid by the July monthly meeting. |
Dine Out Group
Dine - out
John McIntosh 0402 458 061
The Dine Out Groups arranges bookings for either Lunch or Dinner at various restaurants and cafes in the area
The next Dine Out will be at Box Hill RSL on Monday April 20th.
We convene from 6.30pm for a 7.30pm start.
If you intend coming please record your name at the desk at Monday’s meeting.
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