Pioneer Dinners
(CHRISTMAS DAY, blowing hard from the south-east and very cold, with neither grog, tea, or sugar, and nothing but the remains of the flour to celebrate the day. In the afternoon it turned out fine weather.
GEORGE
HEMPLEMAN
(Banks Peninsula whaler, in the _ *thirties)
T was one of Wellington’s best dayswarm, mild, still, with blue sky above and a sapphire sea, and the air was filled with perfume and a hundred different sounds. The lapping of the sea mingled with the bell notes of the makomako and tui, and the fragrant perfume of steaming pigeons with that of burning bushwood in the boiling of the billy. There were sucking pig, beef, pigeons, parakeets, fish and sweet potatoes.
(Description of a Christmas Dinner in early Wellington.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 443, 19 December 1947, Page 33
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127Pioneer Dinners New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 443, 19 December 1947, Page 33
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