In an interview with Don Paginton about the Queens visit he
says;
The Queen came out here and we didn’t have much notice, it
was just a bare paddock out here at that stage.
They worked night and day to produce a place called Windsor Green. Named
Windsor green because she is a Windsor, although everybody seems to throw up
Tudor roses around the place.
Ted Bowden worked for the Housing Trust at the time of the
Queens visit, he recalls;
About three in the morning, I got a radio call to say there
was a strange vehicle doing funny things around the area. I went out and looked, it was a big spray set
up, and it was spraying around to force the flies to go down from where this
Queen and Duke would be.
They were driving the flies away to the reserve where the
school children were going to be.
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