Five children from Riding School

Five children from Riding School.

This copy was supplied by Gail Tregear, who obtained it from the Australian News and Information Bureau. Gail notes of the children from left to right: "I am on the left, followed by the Noeleen Sheehan's sister and then Noeleen, an unknown girl, and then Tom Hunt." The typed caption on the back from the Australian News and Information Bureau reads:

Young Australia Goes out riding: “Everywhere in Australia's wide spaces and in the cities and towns, youngsters and their horses may be seen. Australian youth takes to riding just as readily as it takes to swimming, and the children and their ponies, on the way to school, riding across country during holidays or just jogging about in the fields are a familiar and typically Australian sight. The rolling grasslands, with their meandering little streams amid a setting of trees that surround the young city of Canberra, Australia's national capital, provide ideal conditions for riding, and the Canberra youngsters are enthusiastic horsemen and women. This series of pictures shows a Saturday outing of the Canberra Riding School, in which even the tiny tots enjoy every minute of a day spent out on the roads and ridges. The series of Australian official photographs was made by W. Pederson and the Australian News and Information Bureau, with the co-operation of Mrs. B. Llewellyn, principal of the Riding School."

Proud of their Mounts [CU1320/8]: "Smiling proudly, the young riders line their horses up for another camera shot."