5th April 2025
Compiled from the Daily Advertiser by the Wagga Wagga & District Historical Society.
25 Years Ago
- Members of the Civic Trust’s Heritage Group including Jill Morrow, Philip Goldsmith, Isabel Ireland and Sue Sutherland are pictured receiving a Heritage award for their book, “Which Fence For My House.”
- Mark Pridham a salinity expert from Western Australia is visiting Wagga and met with Wagga City Council’s manager of design services, Bryan Short.
- Plans for an $880,000 extension to Wagga’s Remembrance Village have been lodged with Wagga City Council.
- More than 20 protesters marched on the streets of Wagga protesting the inappropriate placement of young people with disabilities in aged care facilities.
- Melba and Joe Clements celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary with a party hosted by Mrs Clement’s chief bridesmaid, Sadie Webster.
- As part of Youth Week 2000, Wagga Youth Voice chairman, Lauren Meyer addressed an attentive audience at the Wagga Civic Centre regarding issues facing youth today.
- The proprietor of Income Tax Professionals (ITP) branches in Wagga, Albury and Griffith, Simon Rosengren, recently acquired five more outlets in Adelaide.
- Wagga Tigers annual “dine-in” night and guernsey presentation was held at Robertson Oval with guest speaker, vice-president of the Ovens and Murray Australian Football League, Phil Nolan.
- Guest speaker at the Wagga and District Cricket Association annual presentation night, Graham Gorrel outlined a proposal which would see clubs formed in the rapidly expanding residential areas of Estella and Glenfield Park.
- Almost 50 members of the Wagga Women’s branch of the Liberal Party gathered for a luncheon featuring Sir David Smith who was the man who read the famous proclamation sacking Gough Whitlam on the steps of Parliament House in 1975.
- A Wooden family reunion was well attended at Wagga’s Botanic Gardens.
- Wagga Swimming Club point-score champions, Tegan Masson, Brent Dolahenty and Ella Gannon received their trophies at the club’s presentation night.
- Duffy Bros are selling Bonza apples for 79 cents kg, Oranges for 69 cents kg and thick sausages 2kg for $5.
- Wagga City Council is awaiting tests of pavers in the main street after complaints from several residents who claimed they had slipped on the pavers.
- A speaker system worth more than $4000 has been stolen from Kooringal’s Sacred Heart Church. It is the third theft from the premises in the past three months and an alarm system has now been installed.
50 Years Ago
- President of the Southern District Medical Association, Dr F V Joseph told a Wagga Chamber of Commerce meeting that the Federal Government Medibank Scheme would lead to lower standard, cheap medical services in Australia.
- Three RAAF helicopters flew overhead as 1000 uniformed RAAF airmen marched down Baylis Street exercising their privilege of the Freedom of the City granted to Forest Hill RAAF Base in 1961.
- Kooringal Sacred Heart cricket team won the Wagga Cricket Association, Jack Misson premiership shield. Captain Phillip McDonald and vice-captain, Tony Doughty are pictured with coaches Mrs Ruth Galvin and Mrs Lorraine Hill.
- Dux of 34 graduates of the Wagga Agricultural College, Dennis Pascall and fellow graduate, with distinction, James Ross of Holbrook are pictured with Dr Helen Newton Turner who delivered the Occasional Address at the College graduation ceremony.
- The first ever women graduates, Miss Janet Elizabeth Anthony, Mrs Michelle Louise Hird, Miss Merilee Robyn Morris and Miss Helen Margaret Rick also graduated at the Agricultural College ceremony.
- Twelve local high school students were special guests at a Trade Practices Act seminar and are pictured with Graeme Magridge from Wagga Jaycees.
- Bill Stanford, Philatelic Officer at the Wagga Post Office for the past 23 years will retire next week.
- House Captain Kim Bailey and the school’s deputy principal Mr J Waddell were among those pictured during celebrations when Wiradjuri House won the 1975 Mt Austin Primary School Sports Carnival.
- A Cabaret Ball for Miss Australia Entrant, Miss Elizabeth Hornby, which will feature Viv Littlewood’s Orchestra is planned for the Euberta Hall.
- Wagga is receiving $1 million of unemployment relief funds and flood restoration grants which will allow Wagga City Council to employ 121 people on special works throughout the city.
- A Trade Union Week ended in Wagga resulting in about 400 workers joining more than 20 different unions.
- Miss Joan Potter, a former matron at Wagga Base Hospital who has been working as the director of the World Vision, New Life Babies Home in Saigon has been evacuated to Sydney accompanied by 17 children from the home who have been billeted in Sydney.
- Wagga Leagues Club is planning a spectacular concert including Sydney entertainers, Jade Hurley and Terry Gordon to aid the Prime Minister’s Vietnam Refugee Appeal.
- About 60 people representing various community organisations attended a community development seminar at the Wagga City Council Chambers.
- A $300,000 contract for extensions to South Wagga Primary School has been awarded to Peters Constructions Pty Ltd of Tumut.
Membership of the Wagga Wagga and District Historical Society is open to anyone with an interest in the local and regional history of Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia. For more information about us and information on how to join our Society visit our website at https://www.wwdhs.org.au/about-us/members
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