26th October 2024
Compiled from the Daily Advertiser by the Wagga Wagga & District Historical Society.
25 Years Ago
- Anne Brassil has replaced Professor Jim Hagan as deputy chancellor of Charles Sturt University having served on the university board and its predecessors since 1983.
- In a second attack of suspected arson and malicious damage this year eight windows were broken and dozens of computers damaged by vandals at Wagga Christian College.
- Australian of the Year and former Test Cricket, Mark Taylor is pictured in the Daily Advertiser signing his picture in the Wagga Sporting Hall of Fame.
- A bid to establish a children’s ward at Calvary Hospital by mother of two, Ellen Moore appears to have failed despite a petition with more than 800 signatures presented to Calvary Chief Executive Officer, Ted Coupe.
- South Wagga Lions Club has been named District 201N4 club of the year for the third year in a row.
- Award winners at Turvey Park’s presentation night included Blair Campbell, Grant Bourne, Brent Byrnes, Guy Weidermann, Ben Harper, Andrew Whyte, Russell Thomas, Nathan McGrath, Jarrod Hillier, James Bowyer, Stuart Heine, Peter Turnball, Mark Donaldson and Ben Flanagan.
- Early childhood nurse, Sylvia Seidel has retired after a career spanning 42 years.
- Four Wagga School teachers, Helen Lansdown, Corrie Whitfield, Megan Carter and Lyn Robinson shared in the spoils as NSW teams won three finals at the Australian veteran hockey championships held in Brisbane.
- Jacquie Donoghue, Sarah Smallwood, Courtney O’Connor, Brodie O’Connor and Kristy Miller were among netballers receiving their graduation certificates at the Riverina Academy of Sport presentation night.
- Chris Armstrong won the inaugural Warren Smith medal which was presented to him by Warren Smith at the Barooga Sports Club.
- Wagga Tourism chairman, Michael Maher, said that the Wagga Jazz Festival has become one of the city’s major tourism events generating about $1.3 million in spending and attracting 1693 visitors over three nights.
- Wagga City Council received an award at this years New South Wales Landcare Awards for committing substantial funding and staff resources to urban salinity.
- Three new directors, Rod Sheedy, Greg Johnston and Ted Worldon were elected at the Riverina Football Club annual meeting.
- William (Boyd) Stone and Shayne Graham were elected as Commercial Club Directors succeeding John Gray who retired after five years as president and a director since 1983 and David Font who joined the board last year.
- Cootamundra Mayor, Paul Braybrooks has replaced Peter Dale as chairman of the Riverina Eastern Regional Organisation of Councils (REROC).
50 Years Ago
- Last Year’s top sportsman at St Michael’s, Grahame Kelly congratulated the 1974 sportsman of the year, Louis Berrigan after he received this years coveted trophy.
- The 1974 HSC exams commenced with 250 Sixth Form students sitting for the English Exam.
- The Governor of NSW, Sir Roden Cutler and Lady Cutler were greeted on their arrival at Wagga by Superintendent F L Keirman, officer in charge of Riverina Police and Air Commodore G E Prosser, Officer Commanding RAAF Base Forest Hill.
- Mr and Mrs Ves Sykes, Mr and Mrs Harry Hendriks and Mr and Mrs Joe Mason-Cox were among those attending the Country Matrons’ Ball at the Police Boys Club.
- Hardys Hardware has doubled the size of its Home Centre store in Chaston Street.
- Miss Gayle Jennings and Mr Fred Taylor were pictured attending the Beefeaters’ Ball at the Plaza Ballroom.
- The Wagga Seventh Day Adventist Church School has been re-equipped at a cost of $4135 to commemorate the centenary of the establishment of Seventh Day Adventist Missions, Colleges and Schools.
- Council employees from Wagga and surrounding shires took part in the Combined Councils Employees Picnic at the Wagga Cricket Ground.
- Barry Huthwaite, Geoff Chambers and Warren Peacock at Hartwig Holden are offering vehicles for sale including two HQ Holden Utes, a Ford Cortina, a Ford Fairlane sedan and a Torana 4-door sedan.
- Huthwaites are selling Pablo Instant Coffee 6 oz for 79 cents, Greenseas Tuna 15 oz tin for 89 cents and large packs of Skippy Cornflakes for 43 cents.
- Kentucky Fried Chicken is advertising its Dinner Box with three chicken pieces for $1.35, a saving of 30 cents.
- Member for Wagga, Wal Fife said that ten new homes will be built for key employees of local industries in Wagga, by the Department of Decentralisation and Development, at a cost of $157,000.
- Mr Austin Seccombe, an original Anzac with the third battalion has died. His funeral service was conducted by Rev Donald Mackenzie Baird of St Andrews Presbyterian Church with Mr Colin Knott, president of the Wagga RSL sub-branch reading the RSL service.
- Wagga City Alderman, Pat Brassil, will become Junee High School Deputy Principal from the start of next year.
- A 48-year-old man was fined $100 in Wagga Court for switching price tags on two items purchased from Woolworths.
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