6th July 2024
Compiled from the Daily Advertiser by the Wagga Wagga & District Historical Society.
25 Years Ago
- St Michaels Regional High School senior debating team, Justin Huntsdale, Charles Marchant, Andrew Johnstone and Shaun Ellis took out the inter-zone final in the Commonwealth Bank state-wide debating competition.
- South Wagga Rotarians, Norma Tickle and Max McLoughlin were presented with Paul Harris Fellow Awards by Rotary District Governor, Peter Walsh at the club’s annual changeover dinner.
- Adrian Herrick, proprietor, of The Roundabout Store has been forced to close the store on the corner of Best and Forsyth Streets which has served many generations of Wagga’spopulation.
- Member for Riverina, Kay Hull officially opened the Wesfarmers Dalgety’s biggest branch in Australia, located in Moorong Street, Wagga.
- Ron and Beryl Harrison celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary at the Wagga Rules Club.
- Wagga woolgrower, John Pierson took out the overall prize at the second annual The Rural News – Riverina Wool Testers flock ewe competition.
- Virley Dunning won first prize in an Australia wide literary competition run by the Henry Lawson Society.
- Father Wilf Plunkett is recuperating at Calvary Hospital after undergoing heart bypass and micro-valve repair surgery at Saint Vincents Hospital in Sydney.
- Jim and Alice Suidgeest celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary at the Wagga Leagues Club.
- Manager of the CSU Publications Office and Division of Marketing and Communications at Wagga, Pat Kelly has retired after 27 years working at Charles Sturt University.
- Outgoing president, Bill Shaw handed over to incoming president, Jim Tweddle at the Kooringal Rotary changeover dinner.
- Kapooka Kindergarten students and their parents have been busy packing and delivering 700 cheesecakes during their annual fundraiser.
- Knights Meats are selling Sirloin T-bone steaks for $6.95 kg, Chicken Thigh Fillets $6.90 kg and Racks of Lamb $3.80 each.
- Irwin Richter is coordinating a History of the Uranquinty Migrant Hospital to be published in conjunction with a reunion being planned by Wagga City Council and the Uranquinty Progress Association.
- Wagga and District Cricket Association premier, Kooringal Colts, has reappointed Neville Jolliffe as coach for a seventh term.
- More than 100 military personnel at Kapooka army and Forest Hill air force bases are expected to be replaced by civilian contractors by the end of the year.
- The Wagga Commercial Club is spending $50,000 on a refurbishment to improve its appeal to younger members.
50 Years Ago
- Castles Hardware are advertising sensational Gun Values including a Stirling deluxe, .22 auto 15 shot rifle for $45.
- Wagga City Council has lifted the price of gas for city and fringe consumers by an average of 17 per cent which is a total rise of 27 per cent in gas charges in the past nine months.
- Mr C S Krummel, Wagga City Gasworks engineer-manager has been appointed to a special State Government committee established to boost supplies of liquified petroleum gas in country areas.
- Five of eleven Rural Youth State awards announced at their annual conference in Nowra have gone to members of clubs in the Riverina with the top award, the Rural Bank’s $1000 Star Award being won by Gregadoo Rural Youth member, Helen Doyle.
- Seventeen-year-old, Helen Robertson of Mangoplah was named Riverina Debutante of the Year at the annual ball held at the Police Boys Club.
- The Mayor, Ald Morris Gissing, Wagga Rugby League president, Mr Arthur Dixon and Riverina Division president Mr Johnno Johnson met Riverina players before their match against a visiting Great Britain team at Weissel Oval.
- The Wagga Chamber of Commerce is organising a two-day seminar called “Riverina 1984” which will explore where authorities think the Riverina is headed in the next ten years.
- Guest speaker at the next meeting of the Wagga Wagga and District Historical Society will be Dr A Pugsley, Director of the Wagga Agricultural Institute.
- Lakner’s Hair Fashion Studio are having a clearance sale of human hair goods including wiglets, bandolas and wigs.
- Woolworths are selling a Chevron 8-digit calculator with memory bank for $49.95 or 95 cents per week.
- John Hepburn and John Lovett, founders of the Wagga firm of Hepburn and Lovett have retired, and the business has been taken over by four employees, Norm Mowsar, Barry Day, Ricky Nosworthy and Joe O’Connor.
- A section of Hoyts Plaza Theatre will begin its new role as a ballroom and reception hall with the Loretto Home of Compassion Ball next Friday night.
- Gumly Primary School pupils are leaving on an excursion which will include visits by train to Sydney, Grafton and Taree.
- President, Mrs T G L Flynn reported to the Calvary Hospital Auxiliary 34th annual meeting that the group had raised more than $8000 in the past 12 months.
- To reduce the problem of “straying dogs”, Wagga City Council has equipped its impounding officer, Mr R Makepeace, with approved tranquilliser equipment and installed a two-way radio into his van.
- An industrial dispute closed the Wagga Commercial Club yesterday.
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