Volume 48, No. 14, August 10, 2006
By MAJ John McPherson
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A TOUCH of the Ice Age and reminiscences of the Korean War lent a decidedly wintry theme to the annual NT Officers’ Ball at Northern Command’s Larrakeyah Barracks in tropical Darwin on July 15.
About 600 officers and their partners from RAAF Bases Darwin and Tindal, as well as Northern Command and Robertson Barracks, attended the ball on the lawns overlooking Darwin Harbour.
To enhance the evening, a competition was held between units in the region, to see which could create the best edible margarine models to decorate the main buffet tables.
In addition, each of the competitors also supplied a model created from sugar cubes.
The winner of both sections was 1st Combat Signals Regiment with models of a hairy mammoth created from the modelling margarine and a winter chalet created from sugar cubes.
“The concept of the competition was to allow the cooks of the various units to broaden the talents they bring to bear in their everyday work, and allow their creative juices to flow,” competition coordinator, Catering WO1 Dave Hutton, said.
Models ranged from the acorn-gathering character in the Ice Age movies to freezing soldiers outside a Korean bunker in the middle of winter.
