No Red Carpet
T was one of those small settlements with only one store and a pub, and the Duke and Duchess of York, on their 1927 tour of New Zealand, were due to stop for lunch. A dais for the official reception had ‘een put up at the side of the road and decked out in tree ferns and greenery, but, alas, no red carpet was available. The best thing the local store could offer was a narrow, mudcoloured carpet runner with a thin red line down either side. The storekeeper was a sound businessman, He wasn’t going to cut off an odd length which might be awkward to sell afterwards. So he brought the whole roll of carpet across and hid it behind the ferns on the dais when he had laid the necessary length. from the dais along the footpath to the little pub. When the ceremony was over and the Royal party set off along the carpet to the hotel for lunch the storekeeper followed closely behind them, rolling up the carpet on their | heels and ordering off anyone else who dared to tread on it! This is one of the lighter incidents of the 1927 tour that Nelle Scanlan, who .travelled .with the Royal party through New Zealand, tells in a talk about the tour which she has recorded for the NZBS. It will be heard in Women’s Sessions.ftom five National stations during the next few weeksfrom 4YA on December 14, 1YA on December 17. Z on December 18, 3YA on December 22, and 2YA on December 39.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 752, 11 December 1953, Page 27
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263No Red Carpet New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 752, 11 December 1953, Page 27
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