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1) "A Series of Five Talks entitled, "Conscience, Non-Violence, and Social Change" (Dr Martin Luther King)". 2) A male voice singing unidentified music. 3) Unidentified people reading from "Our Mutual Friend", by Charles Dickens. 4) Unidentified music played on an organ.
Female voice dictating articles from the newspapers
"The letters and other writings of Dame Mary Gilmore" by Keith Swan
1) Wagga Wagga and District Historical Society General Meeting, Old Timers' Night Special Guests - Mrs Tilley Keneally (154 Docker St) and Miss Molly Lockwood (Richard Street), 19 Feb 1968, 2) Keith Swan dictating articles from newspapers.
Keith Swan speaking about various photographs of the Wagga district
Gathering to Celebrate the Laying of the Foundation Stone of St Andrew's Presbyterian Church (6 Oct 1869). Interview by Keith Swan of Mr Davidson, Mrs Mitchell, Miss Rentil, Mrs Youngsen (Nixon), on their families' involvement in St Andrew's, (incl. Rev. Donald McKenzie Baird and Rt. Rev. Norman Faichney)
1) Interview by Keith Swan of Mrs Baker (daugher of David Oliver of 65 Fox St), her son Mr Baker, and her neices the Misses Smithurst of Sydney. 2) Keith Swan dictating articles from newspapers. 3) Wagga Wagga and District Historical Society General Meeting, Special Guests - various decendants of the Nixon Family of Gregadoo.
Wagga Wagga and District Historical Society?: Keith Swan speaking on the history of the Wagga Wagga Express and the Daily Advertiser, with special guests Jack Mitchell and Brian Sheppard speaking on their memories of working at the Daily Advertiser.
Wagga Wagga and District Historical Society General Meeting - Talk by Special Guests Mrs Montague and Mr Higgins on the subject of Charles Hardy and his family
1) Interview by Keith Swan of Mrs Tillie Keneally (daughter of Job Robbins Elliot) of 154 Docker Street, Wagga Wagga. 2) Keith Swan dictating articles from newspapers
Wagga Wagga and District Historical Society?: Special Guests Mr Cox, and Mr Ruen? speaking about Livingstone Gully, Tarcutta, and Borambola, (also includes Mr Carpenter speaking about locations in Wagga and apprenticeships, and Mr Inglis speaking about a graphophone and a boxing fight between Erroll and Campbell).
Keith Swan recounting details from an interview with Mrs HC Carpenter (of 13 Hammond Avenue), a decendant of Robert Nixon
Unknown female dictating from "Census of NSW 1881 Appendix K"; Keith Swan dictating from "Letter Book of the Council of the Municipality of Wagga Wagga", and "History of the AWU by WG Spence"
Keith Swan dictating from the Colonial Secretary's papers: Letters to the benches and magistrates at Wagga Wagga 1847-1855, and articles from newspapers