A two-month tour of Australia by Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip in 1954 included a flying go to to the agricultural New South Wales city of Wagga Wagga on 13 February lasting 145 minutes.
Cheering crowds greeted the favored younger royals as they stepped off their airplane on the air pressure base in Forest Hill. It appeared all the Riverina district had come out to attempt to catch a glimpse of the couple, very similar to in every single place else they visited.
Travelling in an open-top automobile, so everybody might get view, the royals arrived for a go to to the carnival on the Wagga Wagga Showgrounds.
Right here they watched woodchopping and boomerang throwing exhibitions in addition to an agricultural show of wool classing and sheep shearing earlier than getting a more in-depth take a look at the merino sheep.
In simply over two hours they have been gone, because the royal schedule was gruelling with occasions held morning, afternoon and night.
After visiting 57 rural cities and all capital cities besides Darwin, the tour completed in Fremantle, Western Australia on 1 April 1954.
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