Another scoop from our Shipping Reporter, shivering in the Townsville University Hospital airconditioning .
While downing rice bubbles for breakfast,he was shocked to discover that a 120gram container of SPC ProVital diced fruit salad on the tray contained imported pineapple pieces. In small print, it said the contents are made in Australia from at least 43 per cent Australian ingredients. By deduction, Dr Watson, it seems there is a helluva lot of imported pineapple . How can the Queensland Health Department justify serving this to patients? Has the Sunshine State stopped growing pineapples?
Our waterfront roundsman says a jovial woman who delivers food trays entertains patients by singing and humming as she goes about her work. Other female staff members who bustle in early in the day to tidy up also brighten proceedings. One often wears a dazzling blouse with a pattern of parrots or a tropical island scene .
One of the cheery brigade supplied the Shipping Reporter with a beaut story about the pet Cockatoo, named Pepper , her parents had in the mining town of Mount Isa years ago, who used to shout ," Isa Mail!" Apparently he emulated a newspaper seller who went about yelling out the (Mount ) Isa Mail .
