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Large piece of cardboard with six B/W photographs pasted on. Caption from left to right:- A. The Governor General with Lady Slim arrives at the City Hall. B. The youth of Ballarat welcomes the Governor and Lady Slim at the City Oval. C. The Mayor Cr. Pittard. The Contractor Mr. Trahar. D. The Governor lays a wreath at the Cenotaph. E. The Governor lays the Foundation Stone. F. Missing Photo. G. At the City Oval. Caption at bottom reads: "First visit of the Governor General Field Marshall W. Slim to lay the Foundation Stone of the new Civic Hall March 3rd 1955. Inscribed on this caption is "Civic Hall officially opened by Mayor Callow August 20th 1956 at 3.20 pm. Reverse has B/W photograph of a group of Asian? children and 3 white,1 man,2 woman possibly missanarys ?. Caption below reads "Masampo Schoo l914" and "Mr. A. Cairns". Grey frame. Dress suggests the children are Korean.