Narrow Gauge Railway operations both freight and passenger rail car. Papar township with official buildings. Fishing villages. School Sports Day. Jesselton harbour installations and Naval Destroyer. Coastal passenger freighter in harbour. Country markets both for crockery and for food.Crowded regatta and water sports day in narrow creek with canoe races.Open day at country college campus. Village official celebrations with bunting. Country race meeting. Water buffalo race at race course meeting.

Firey Pacific ocean sunset over sandy beach and bay.

Production / Donor Details: These films were taken by Edmund Kennedy Wicksteed, 1916-1992. In the 1930s he worked as a customs officr in Malaya, was captured by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore, & was imprisoned at Lintang Internment Camp, Kuching, Sarawak. After the war he served as a customs officer, District Officer, & then joined the secretariat in Jesseleton before becoming Resident in various districts in Borneo. He returned to England in 1966 when Borneo became independent. He was awarded the CBE for colonial service.