Donald Burnett, owner of the Mount Cook sheep station and keen amateur filmmaker, shot the films in this collection between 1950 and 1969.
A parade through main street Timaru featuring marching bands, Scottish Highland bands, New Zealand Army troops in tanks, floats commemorating the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, beauty queens, a short kapa haka performance and so on. The reel finishes at the beach with floats parading along Caroline Bay beachfront.