NOVEL DINNER.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 313, 4 December 1936, Page 8

NOVEL DINNER.

4 FOOD BY ’PLANE. FROM NORTHERN TERRITORY. Twentv ordinary men snt down at a Sydney ‘hotel, recently, to the most extraordinary dinner ever served in Sydney, says the Morning Herald. It was given by Mr A. Macalister 151 am, M.P.T on he'll alt of the Northern. Territory producers. The food—nine courses —came from the Territory by air to Sydney. , , “Sanko-kaichi melee knikai barramnndili ungilai,” said Mr Plain, before the dinner began. For the guests benefit he explained that the words meant, f< Thc dinner is on tne table, gentlemen, let us begin and enjoy ourAfter oysters came kangaroo tail soup, the true thing. Then barramundi from the Hopei* River. Jhe Bullocky Brunette” which followed proved to he blonde roast beef. “GRAMOPHONE RECORDS” When the guests were offered “Arnhem Land Gramophone Records,” they refused politely, but the dish proved to he buffalo tongue, enriched with “piggee-Pig-ee-yah” (wild pig). The dinner continued. Tasty “Goose all same Humptydoo” and “Blackfella Duck” were placed before the guests. The dinner closed with “Big Mob Fruit,” “Coffee Belong Adelaide River,” and “Peanut All Same Daly.” “There is only one toast to-mght, and I give it with pride,” said Mr Blain. “The Northern Territory May it cease to he the danger spot for any invasion of Australia.’ “Aerial transport and dry ice will solve the problems of the inland,” lm said. , “To-day there are more Japanese with military training off the coast of North Australia than there are white men,” said Mr C. W. D Gonacher, who represented Vestys, Ltd. M lthin 50 years or less there may be complications in the north which will he the result of neglect of the Northern Territory to-day. The only way to settle i tfic north is by private enterprise, j