Compiled from the Daily Advertiser 25 Years Ago ·         $7.7 million has been allocated in the NSW State budget for construction work on the Gobba bridge in the coming financial year. ·         Wagga City Council convened a meeting, chaired by Cr Mary Kidson, after it received an alarming report on the poor condition of Lake […]

The Wagga Wagga Police Station was established by 25 November 1851 when a chief constable was appointed there. By 1863 the station was situated in the police administration in the Murray District and was staffed by one mounted sub-inspector, one mounted sergeant, one mounted senior constable, six mounted constables and one-foot constable.

Compiled from the Daily Advertiser 25 Years Ago ·         Finemore Holdings Limited announced a 34 % increase in after tax operating profit to $3.503 million for the 12 months to June 1993. ·         Noel Stair, Officer in Charge of the Wagga Bureau of Meteorology said the past two months were unusually warm for winter. ·         […]

The Wagga Beach Caravan Park has long been a very popular spot on the Murrumbidgee River alongside the Wagga beach as this 1960’s photo from the Lennon Collection shows.. It is however due to close when its current lease from Wagga City Council ends in 2019. The Caravan Park will then relocate to the Wiradjuri […]

Compiled from the Daily Advertiser 25 Years Ago ·         Operator, Wayne Sutherland closed the popular Cococabana night spot blaming heavy fines for technical breaches of the licensing act and difficulties changing existing licensing arrangements. ·         Southern Riverina County Council general manager John Goldsworthy said that this year’s mild winter has resulted in a drop in […]

Tom Lennon arrived in Wagga in 1955 to work as a photo engraver with the short-lived Evening News. Later that year, he moved to The Daily Advertiser as its chief and originally, only photographer, and he continued to visually chronicle Wagga and the Riverina until the early 1970s. Tom was a unique personality, compassionate and […]

25 Years Ago ·         Mayor Pat Brassil opened the $3 million stage one extensions of the Wagga Leagues Club. ·         Dean of CSU’s Faculty of Science and Agriculture, Associate Professor, Jim Pratley addressing the 22nd Riverina Outlook Conference said, “the farmer that survives the next decade will be well educated, computer literate and be up […]

A meeting to introduce baseball to Wagga sporting enthusiasts was held at the Wagga School of Arts on 21 June 1935. The meeting was presided over by Mr E Gooch and was well attended. The first match of the newly formed Wagga Baseball Association was held at the Wagga Cricket Ground later in 1935. See […]

  25 Years Ago ·         Warren Smith and Max Shepherd conducted a two-day camp at Borambola for 50 talented young cricketers. ·         Miss Wagga, Kylie Jacobson and Community Princess Karen Ingram were welcomed back from their overseas trip at a civic reception attended by about 50 people. ·         At the reception, Councillor Mary Kidson, suggested […]

After years of investigation and debate Wagga RSL Club was opened on 3 September 1947 as the Returned Sailors Soldiers & Airmen’s Club at 157 Baylis Street.