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Footage includes:

• students travelling on Fearnes bus to Practice Teaching [unidentified school]
• school students on play equipment (across the road from the school?)
• students being picked up from the Yerong Creek Public School (incl. Ken Follett)
• Sadie Hawkins Day activities with Wagga Agricultural College (incl. an obstacle race, slippery log pillow fights, bed relay, and greasy pig catch) (incl. Maurice Hale and Mr Alcorn)
• scenes from the College's production of Princess Ida by Gilbert and Sullivan
• Yearly examinations held in the new Lecture Block R
• Lecturers identified in footage include Gordon Young, George Byrnes, Mr Alcorn and Principal Maurice Hale.

Footage includes:

• Aerial views of College campus and surrounding area (especially Mount Austin and Turvey Park), the Mary Gilmore Gates, rose gardens and a gardener, and construction of new lecture block (would later become the preschool).
• College activities, such as residential areas and student life in the residences, students in the Blakemore Library, a geography lesson, a trophy presentation ceremony with Principal Hale in the Auditorium, drama, soccer, kitchen staff serving dinner, students in the dining room, students catching a bus to climb The Rock, and sailing on Lake Albert.
• Practice Teaching, such as aerial views of Turvey Park Demonstration School, college students observing classes (includes primary students dressed in costume during a history or geography class, then students dancing in the quadrangle, a college student teaching a class at Narrandera, students catching buses to attend practice teaching, children dancing outside a country school.
• End of year activities, such as a Graduation or Debutante Ball, packing up the residences, saying goodbye and catching the train at Wagga Wagga Railway Station.
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