Matron Betty Toohey at the Uranquinty Migrant Centre hospital on June 22, 1949, with baby, Peter Dimitriewicz, the first baby born at the centre. Picture: Sherry Morris

Wagga’s Victory Memorial Gardens including a Nativity Scene in a photo probably taken from the six story Council administration building built in 1967 adjacent to the historic Council Chambers and demolished in 1999 to be replaced by the present day civic centre.

The Wagga to Tumbarumba rail line opened in stages between 1917 and 1921. This is the last train on the line in 1974. Picture: Geoff Haddon

Pictured here are co-owners of the new Kooringal Hotel Motel Mr John Jackson and Mr Bill Cosier which was opened 50 years ago in 1967.

Federal Coach Factory in Fitzmaurice Street. AF Hely sold the business to J Parsons and Sons in 1905 and Parsons sold the business in 1912. Picture: Sherry Morris Collection

Wagga District Hospital was built on the corner of Docker and Edward streets in 1910 with many people complaining at the time that it was “too far out of town”. Picture: CSURA RW558_31

McLaurin family members weighing a bag of chaff. A steam traction engine probably powering the chaff cutter is visible in the background.

Wagga’s hospital was first established in 1856 in a small cottage in Kincaid Street. It was later moved to the corner of Tarcutta and Johnston Streets (on the site of the present police Station) and finally to its present site in Edward Street in 1910.

Twenty five Years ago hams prepared by Knights Meats as prizes for the lucky wheel competition are a very popular attraction at the annual Carmelite Springtime Fair.

The Red Cross formed as an Australian Branch of the British Red Cross Society on the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 and soon after the Wagga Branch of the Wagga Red Cross League was formed with eighty women immediately volunteering.