WANGANELLA CHRISTMAS

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30312, 12 December 1963, Page 27

WANGANELLA CHRISTMAS

“A Rip-Roaring Time”

The 80 to 90 workmen who have elected to stay o.n board the floating hostel, Wanganella, at Deep Cove, over Christmas have rip-roaring time,” said the hostel’s chef, Mr K. Evans, in a telephone interview.

No women, he said, would be on board but the men planned to “act the goat” and hold a dance among themselves. The music would be supplied '• an ewthustastic workers’ band of piano, saxophone and drums with plenty of volunteer vocalists. ‘ ‘There will be beer galore,” he said. Mr Evans said that two chiefs and a butcher would remain on the Wanganella to cater for the Christmas cheer. Already the cooking team was busy preparing about two dozen Christmas puddings. There would be all the trimmings, including mince pit®, chicken and turkey. In between festivities and sing-songs, the men would go deer-shooting and fishing. Mr Evans said that about 170 of theManapourj tail-race project workmen at present on the Wanganella would be flown out of Deep Cove. Five aircarft including two Cessna floatplanes, one 12-passenger amphibian and probably two small amphibians would be used. Weather permitting, the airlift would begin about December 22. The men would return to the Wanganella in a return airlift before January 2.

The Trans-Siberian oil pipeline, which starts from Bashkiria and crosses the Ural mountains and Western Siberia, has now reached its terminal point— the young Siberian town of Angarsk.