Welcome to new Perth Probian Mavis Taylor

Mavis (left) is being welcomed by Club President Pamela Menzel (right)

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Committee members 2023 to 2024

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Photos from the Xmas lunch December 2022 at Lake Karrinyup Country Club have been posted

Click here to see the photos of   • Christmas Lunch at Lake Karrinyup December 13 2022

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Proof Readers required to read original handwriting and correct transcribed copy of WA exploration diaries and reports (1884-1904)

WA’s Hesperian Press has just published a 732-page book of exploration diaries and reports on the Kimberley, titled ‘Closing in on the Kimberley, 1819–1884.’ This colour illustrated volume, the first of three projected on the Kimberley, comes near the end of a much larger series of original historical documents within the ‘Western Australia Explorers’ Diaries Project’, or WAEDP. Hesperian began series publication in 2005. I am the principal editor of the Kimberley volumes.

Preparation of the second Kimberley volume, diaries covering the period 1884–1904, is well advanced. Many of the documents to be published are handwritten, and in variable states of clarity and preservation. In order to retain a high standard of accuracy, the WAEDP project requires that each document be read and the transcribed copy corrected by three separate trained proof readers and then incrementally corrected by myself.

Hesperian Press and I need new proof readers, to be trained and unleashed shortly on raw materials. Chief skills required are an ability to read cursive script of the era, patience, insight and dedication.

There is no payment and no timetable. Personal rewards are merely intimate involvement with original documents concerning WA history and personal satisfaction. My sole reward for the past eight years is a hard copy of the book (initial cover above; with the first copy arriving last Monday 31st October; $220, costs hard cover).

If you are interested in learning more about how to become a WAEDP proof reader, please contact me using email address: probusperth@gmail.com

Ned Overton, 8 November 2022.

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Photos from the Wildflower walk in Kings Park and Wireless Hill September 2022 have been posted

Click here to view • Wild Flower Walk in Kings Park and Wireless Hill on September 22 2022

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Happy Birthday to Jean !

We celebrated Jean Brown’s 80th birthday at LKCC today with cake and a song

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Probus Perth has a new postal address . . .

Our new postal address for all correspondence is:

Probus Club of Perth Inc.,
P.O. Box 1041,
Gwelup,  W.A.  6018.

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Welcome to Probus Perth W.A.

Please read our message of welcome on the Home page!

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