00:04 At Bindarrah they were repairing the telephone.

00:08 Close up of white Australian man smoking a pipe.

00:12 Two men erect a new telephone pole. One climbs up the pole and to fix new wires.

00:32 We paid a call and found out the way.

00:36 Small child carries a toy dog at the front of a house.

00:45 Wide shot of house with a person lady towards it on the right hand side.

00:47 Lady walks towards camera smiling.

00:50 We passed a camel team before we reached Eringa.


00:54 A large group of camels are harnessed and steered by a man using a long whip.
01:25 Wide shot of camels unharnessed and free on large flat landscape.

01:32 Camel kneels down before quickly standing up again.

01:42 Car travels up an incline towards the camera.

01:49 Picnic race meeting, a great day for bush folk.

01:54 Truck is parked with a horse in the back. A woman and child in the front seat of the truck. People stand around to the left chatting.

02:01 Truck with horse pulls away.

02:12 Cars are parked near a shack with a crowd gathered around in the background.

02:20 People stand aside and two men on bicycles pass down the track.

02:27 Horses and jockeys line up for the race.

02:31 The horse race begins.

02:37 In the great seven years’ drought sheep were trucked south.

02:43 Two dead sheep lay on the ground.

02:51 Sheep are loaded up a ramp and onto the train.

02:59 Sheep continued to be loaded onto the train. Two young children with sticks attempt to help by hitting sticks against the side of the train.

03:10 Mannahill looked dull, barren and uninteresting.

03:20 Wide shot of largely barren road with a hotel on the left hand side.

03:21 My church warden leaves on a call to Yunta.

03:25 Two men travel down the rail tracks on a handcar before turning back and waving to the camera.

03:45 The railcar is approaching the camera. One man pushes the railcar by hand before jumping on board and travelling out of shot.

03:45 Fifty miles East all were busy about travelling sheet to rail head.

03:52 Priest carries a large steel pale and empties it into the car parked nearby.

04:02 Horse pulling a cart with two men speeds across the frame.

04:05 Car parked in the foreground with a saddle to its right. In the background are two carts and horses walking by.

04:12 Horses and men on horseback wonder around a paddock. A black dog runs around them.

04:22 Four men on horseback wonder into the distance.

04:32 Shorn sheep eat from a trough near a wood and wire fence.

04:43 A man directs sheep into different sections of the pen using hinged gates.

05:08 Two packed carts stand with horses and men on horseback.

05:14 One of the packed carts is pulled away by the horses with one man and dog on board

05:21 Gates are opened and sheep rush out into the paddock. “

05:29 I leave the Bishop and meet a Swaggy and Hawker.

05:35 A Bishop in a black overcoat and hat stands next to a train and stares off into the distance towards the left.

05:41 The Bishop climbs on-board the train before leaning out to look around.

05:47 A swagman stands looking directly at the camera.

05:50 Close up of swagman before he walks away.

05:56 Swagman stands next to his wagon with four horses before riding away.

06:15 Car and Rail trouble was sometimes our lot.

06:21 A bogged truck piled high with supplies is attached to a rope to attempt to pull it free.

06:29 Six men successfully push a bogged car from the trunk.

06:43 An older climbs inside the now freed car, smiling at the camera as he does so.

06:48 A train carriage has derailed. Men attempt to put it back on the rail using planks.

07:03 Young boy and lady attempt to fix tyre on car.

07:10 People stand along a railway in the distance. Camera pans left to reveal a crashed train the carriages turned over off the tracks and crushed.

07:23 Men begin to clear away the scene.

07:26 Film finished.

07:30 End of film.

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