To cope with the ice age sweeping across the southern states , the Royal Australian Navy's HMAS Adelaide is shown here in sunny Cairns taking on emergency rum barrels at Hemingway's Brewery, a daily tot of which will warm up matelots when they sail south into dangerous iceberg waters. This (Ernest ) Hemingway short story scoop includes photos by Aeronautical Correspondent Abra.
(Navy. Rum . Cairns. )
