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An interesting insight into the impact of the first visit to Australia by Queen Elizabeth ll , the importance of correspondence courses and arts and crafts at the time are revealed in the above Royal Visit Issue for the Adelaide based Correspondence School of the South Australian Education Department .
In three pages dealing with the royal visit there is a poem entitled OUR QUEEN and reports from pupils about the big event , including arrival of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh in Adelaide from Broken Hill, New South Wales .
Many of the shops and streets of Adelaide were decorated with flags and bunting ; looked like fairyland at night .
The royal party travelled to other parts of the state.
At Whyalla , near where many dead wallabies and kangaroos were seen on the road, not clear if the marsupials were rundown by cars going to the royal event , children wearing red capes formed the message , Welcome to Whyalla, painted Aborigines performed a corroboree.
People from near and far gathered at Renmark, there being a crowd of about 30,000 . Pupils from 25 schools sang the National Anthem. Speedboat races, water skiing and paddlesteamer races entertained the crowd that came to town ,
At Mount Gambier , there was a huge crowd, and children formed a map of Australia in red ,white and blue uniforms . The royals eventually left for Western Australia .
