CHRISTMAS AT SEA

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22901, 2 December 1937, Page 10

CHRISTMAS AT SEA

EARLY PREPARATIONS LINERS FOR ENGLAND CATERING AT AUCKLAND VJ Means of making the Christmas season memorable are already being considered by shipping providers, who are catering ; for overseas vessels which will be ; sea at Christmas. Several passenger ; ships sailing from Auckland in the ' next week will be at sea at that time Menus of passenger liners to-day are of such a high standard that considerable ingenuity is required to prepare special Christmas dinners. Additional supplies of poultry and other foodstuffs \ will be taken from Auckland, but one of the chief purchases will comprise novelties, such as bon-bons, toys and Christmas trees. Those passengers who left Auckland || for London yesterday bv the Xetr Zealand Shipping Company's liner fi Kuahine will probably celebrate the Christmas season in the warm weather experienced after passing through the Panama Canal. Another climate wi 11 be i experienced by the passengers on the Port Line motor-ship Port Chalmers which will sail from Auckland for London, via Cape Horn and Las IPalmas, on Saturday. The Port Chalmers should be on the southern American coast on Christmas Day. The Shaw, Savill an( j Albion motor-ship Waipawa, expected ■ to sail from Auckland for London nest Wednesday, is expected to be rounding Cape Horn about December 25. The Matson liner Mariposa, which will arrive at Auckland from San Francisco on Christmas Eve, will leave the same day for Sydney. Other passenger liners which will be in the Tasman Sea on Christmas Day will be the HuddartParker vessel Wanganella, from Wellington to Sydney, the Canadian Australasian liner Niagara, from Sydney to Auckland, and the Union Company's Awatea, from Sydney to Wellington.