TREAT AT SEA
VISIT FROM FATHER CHRISTMAS
GIFTS FOR ALL CHILDREN PA AUCKLAND, Dec. 27. A few hundred miles of ocean make little difference to Father Christmas or his indefatigable reindeer. For more than an hour early on Christmas morning his entourage—reindeer, sled, and all—swept through the corridors of the Auckland-bound liner Monowai until every child on board had been visited and given a present.
Father Christmas’s high seas representative was Quartermaster Julian Waretini (brother of the Maori singer) and bell boys made admirable reindeer.
“ Mainly food,” was how Captain G. B. Morgan, D. 5.0., described Christmas Day on board the ship. The passengers enjoyed a full-scale Christmas dinner, with all trimmings. The sea was reasonably calm, and very few missed the treat.
Almost as busy as the chefs and stewards were the ship's two wireless operators, who estimated that they transmitted nearly 500 “ Merry Christmas ” cablegrams on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27274, 28 December 1949, Page 7
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