Clip description
The stage is set for the Stawell Gift. Intertitles explain it is the ‘greatest professional footrunning meeting in the world’ with prize money over £1,000 and with 560 competitors. A brass band plays in Stawell’s main street as thousands of people arrive in the town by train for the Carnival celebrations. The entrance to the Stawell Showground at Central Park delivers the spectators into the grounds.