The item is a reel of b&w film footage from 1930 containing the following three dcoumentaries:
Checking up on farm loan prospects: "Officials, including George Sangster, Chairman of the Farm Loan Board and Mat Hassen, local appraiser, looking over farm buildings and discussing loan with farmer. Obviously the loan is clinched because officials shake hands with the farmer at their car, smiling. This little film seems intended to assure farmers about receiving a fair shake when applying for a government loan."

Picnic, Dominion Experimental Farm, Summerland, Okanagan, June 3rd 1930: "Trucks and cars arriving. Kids' running races, sack races and wheelbarrow races. Carpenter's competition -- ladies' nail-hampering contest (into a thick beam). Mr. Leek, President of the Vancouver Exhibition Association, and Mrs. Leek, Mr. Matheson, Manager and Secretary, and Mrs. Matheson, posing. Crowds. An old timer, John Treffry of Summerland, with a long white beard. Pan of countryside from railway bridge [crossing Trout Creek]. People walking across trestle; long drop to the bottom of the chasm. Pan across Experimental Farm grounds. Farmers try their hand at gold. Small group watches as train crosses trestle. Mr. Hunter, Superintendent of the Experimental Farm, poses with a cow. Stock-judging demonstrations. $2000.00 cow owned by a man in the district. Poses with Dr. Knight, Livestock Commissioner. Pan of lake with cars in [foreground] across the fields."

Scenes on the way from Penticton to Princeton: "This footage was possibly shot while returning from a picnic at Summerland Experimental Farm in June 1930. Keremeos passes by the window. Concentrator at Hedley Gold Mine and cable. Young shepherd from Inverness, Scotland, and his dog. The dog rounds up sheep. Shorthorn herd of Mr. Taylor, Princeton. His irrigation ditch and flume. Gold hunters in dry creek bed -- one holds up fake gold. Beaver dam. Scenes on William Thompson's sheep farm near Merritt, sheep being driven into pens for shearing. From L to R: Mr. Munro, Deputy Minister of Agriculture; Mr. Davie; Dr. Knight, Livestock Commissioner; Mr. Patterson and Mr. Challenger; Mr. Halmer, manager of Nicola Lake Ranching Co.; Mr. Brodie, a prospective settler from Australia."
(Colin Browne)

This series consists of records created by the Land Settlement Board between 1914 and 1967. The records contain correspondence, subject and loan files, 1926-1960 regarding land settlement, agricultural credit, soldier settlement, dyking and drainage, and livestock; minutes of meetings, 1930-1946, 1958-1967; reports, 1917-1926; orders-in-council, 1916-1947; land statistics, appraisals and valuations, 1918-1957; applications and loan registers 1916-1958; purchase, payroll, accounts and property registers, 1919-1962; and Doukhobor land account books, 1942-1945. It includes correspondence with early agricultural cooperatives and records of predecessor agency, BC Agricultural Credit Commission. The series also consists of 53 maps.