P & O s.s. CANBERRA DINNER Appetizers Fruit Cocktail Smoked Salmon Soup Consomme Mikado Cream of Barley Fish Fillet of Halibut, Bearnaise Sauce Fillet of Halibut, Van den Berg Entree Braised Ox Tongue, Bretonne Joint Roast Saddle of Lamb with Green Peas and Noisette Potatoes Poultry Braised Duck Bigarde Grill to Order Rump Steak, Tomato Farce, Onions and Fried Potatoes Cold Buffet Sirloin of Beef Leg of lamb Ham Corned Ox Tongue Salads Lettuce, Tomato, Radish and Red Cabbage Tossed Green Dressings Mayonnaise French Vinaigrette Vegatables Buttered Brussels Sprouts Potatoes Boiled Sweets Orange Cheese Cake Victoria Sundae Friandises Assorted Pastries Water Ice Savoury Beurrecks a la Turque Cheese New Zealand Cheddar Roquefort Biscuits Bath Oliver Cream Crackers Hotel Crackers Betterwheat Ryvita Table Water Vita-Weat Water Breakfast Fresh Fruit In Season Dessert Fruits Crystallised Fruits Beverages Coffee Ceylon Tea China Tea Indian Tea Instant Coffee:-Nescafe and Sanka American Coffee Tea and coffee are also served in the Public Rooms Chefs suggestions in bold type Chef - G. Ruddock Thursday 25th February 1971 WINES --- All wines included in the Wine List are ready for serving and the following recommended : - Australian White - Chablis Dalwood (Penfolds) Australian Red - Claret Chateau Tahbilk --- The following wines are available for sale by the glass : - Rhine Rudesheimer Klosterberd Riesling Glass £0.18 A.40 cts. U.S.44 cts. Rhone Chateauneuf-du-Pape, Red ... Glass £0.17 A.37 cts. U.S.42 cts. Australian Claret Chateau Tahbilk ... Glass £0.14 A.31 cts. U.S.35 cts. Australian Hock Quelltaler ... ... Glass £0.12 A.27 cts. U.S.30 cts. Bordeaux White "Vin Ordinaire" ... Glass £0.10 A.22 cts. U.S.25 cts. Bordeaux Red "Vin Ordinaire" ... Glass £0.10 A.22 cts. U.S.25 cts. Wandering Albatross Long before Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 'Ancient Mariner' the albatross had been enmeshed in superstition for sea-faring men. Its name was inseparable from omen, weather and the spirits of sailors lost at sea. This one, the Wandering Albatross, is largest of them all and, with a wing span of over eleven feet, has the longest spread of any living bird. It is a bird of the southern oceans with a circumglobal range centred around latitude 40 south. Albatrosses are great ship-followers, soaring with a fabulous ease and delight in their chosen sea areas of strong and more or less contrant wind. Their breeding colonies are on eight or nine island groups, among them Tristan da Cunha, Kerguelen, and South Georgia. At breeding sites they are gregarious and, like the rest of their avian order of 'tubenoses', lay but one egg to a clutch. It is then and only then that the Albatross looks at loss with its element. It is a bird wholly designed for sustained ocean flight; its limitations on the land are many, for the world's longest winged and most perfect soaring bird must pay no heed to compromise. But comparatively few people witness its disadvantages on the land. To most it is a sight of which the American ornithologist Robert Cushman Murphy wrote in his 'Logbook for Grace'-'I now belong to the higher cult of mortals for I have seen the albatross.' This is one of a series of six menu cards depicting some of the beautiful birds that may be seen in and around the countries and oceans served by P & O ships. The original oil paintings were specially executed and described for P & O by Keith Shackleton, R.S.M.A, S.W.L.A., and printed in England by Daniel Greenaway & Sons Ltd.