BANANA BOAT REPORTING

When it comes to matters maritime, the NT News appears to be all at sea. One of our many fans , after reading the post about the paper getting the MV Tampa mixed up with tamper , semaphored that there seems to be a similar problem when the daily refers to Maritime Union of Australia Territory organiser, Thomas MAYOR . For some unfathomable reason ,the News refers to him in print as MAYO–rhymes with DAY-O! in the Harry Belafonte hit ,the Jamaican Banana Boat Song. As a result, you now hear happy waterfront workers doing Belafonte imitations as they load the Humpty Doo banana crop for export to Queensland , ever alert for poisonous tarantula spiders.