N.Z. Daffodils Admired

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32031, 4 July 1969, Page 1

N.Z. Daffodils Admired

(N.Z.P.A. Staff Correspondent) LONDON, July 3. One of the biggest hits at the Caernarvon ball to celebrate the investiture of the Prince of Wales was the six dozen daffodils sent by Turners and Growers, Auckland. “It would take me 24 hours to repeat to you all the admiring comments the daffodils excited," said Mrs T. Jones, who arranged the flowers at the ball. “Everyone was absolutely thrilled, especially Princess Margaret” Mrs Jones had ordered some daffodils from Kenya, but they were killed by drought She broadcast an

appeal on the 8.8. C. world service and Mr J. Turner, of the Auckland firm, responded within a few hours. The flowers arrived in London by air at 9.30 ajn. on the day of the ball and were in Caernarvon by 6 p.m.—“just in time to tip them into a warm-water bath to freshen them up before the guests arrived,” said Mrs Jones. Mrs Jones arranged them on the four Royal tables facing the investiture coronet, and included some in the presentation bouquet for Princess Margaret “Everyone was delighted with them,” said Mrs Jones. “Princess Margaret thought they were wonderful.”