TREES FOR TRAVELLERS
Each Christmas Day there are on an average 30 big British passenger liners at sea, some crossing the Atlantic, some the Pacific, some on their way to India or Australia. So always thousands of British supbjects spend their Christmas on the water. In most of these ships, however, and more particularly in the big trans Atlantic vessels, the day is kept in the true spirit. On one occasion When the Mauretania Was at sea on Christmas Day, with nearly ISOO passengers, 500 puddings were cooked aud eaten on Christmas Eve. There was a Christmas Carnival, and on Christmas morning carols were sung. There was also a Christmas tree for the children, and one of the officers dressed as Father Christmas distributed presents. One base even heard of Christmas trees in trains. The old trans-Contifi-ental express, which ran across Europe to Constantinople, invariably had a tree in the dining saloon, which was brilliantly illuminated. It must have been a curious sight as it sped across the snow-clad plains of Germany and Hun sary with its tree ablaze with lights.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 143, 2 June 1936, Page 11
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