31st August 2024
Compiled from the Daily Advertiser by the Wagga Wagga & District Historical Society.
25 Years Ago
- More than 200 people filled the Riverina Playhouse to hear 41 of the 46 candidates in next week’s Wagga City Council poll put their case for election at a forum chaired by Philip Goldsmith.
- Riverina Mail Centre facility manager, Roy Judd is celebrating 40 years of postal service having begun his career as a junior postal officer in 1959 at Berri.
- Early figures suggest that Legacy’s Annual Appeals week has raised $22,000 in Wagga this week which is up on last year’s figure of $19,500.
- Asthma educator, Robyn Paton, is urging anyone who sneezes or wheezes during spring to see a doctor and develop an asthma management plan.
- Touch screens and large keyboards are being added to make computer equipment more accessible, particularly for the aged and disabled at the Riverina Regional Library, Wagga.
- Fred Loneragan from the Police and Community Youth Club said skating ramps and more underage dance parties are entertainment priorities for youth with a new committee set up by the PCYC to obtain the views of young people.
- Michael Georgiou, Jim Booth, Ly Smith, Dennis Ward, Jane Shields and Allan Norris were among those attending the Annual General Meeting of FM107 2AAA at the RSL Club.
- After a career spanning more than ten years as an Australian Football Association umpire, Tim Beard will officiate his 200th first grade game this week with Wagga Tigers and Coolamon playing at Robertson Oval.
- Union Club Hotel bottle shop is selling Johnnie Walker Red for $18.99 with every $25 purchase.
- Darren Coggan has landed a lead role as Ritchie Cunningham in “Happy Days the Arena Mega Musical” playing at the new indoor Sydney Superdome.
- Mark Anthony’s Menswear and Jeanery has added formal wear hire to its Baylis Street store.
- Restauranteur Darryl Lamotte, proprietor of Locksley The Restaurant in Peter Street is opening a second restaurant to be called Elle’s on the corner of Forsyth and Peter Street.
- The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has pledged to investigate petrol prices in Wagga.
- Dean of Medicine at UNSW, Professor Bruce Dowton, announced that the number of medical students placed at Wagga Base Hospital will increase to 16 from next year.
- A Wagga branch of the Australian Family Alliance was formed with an executive of four elected with Michael Murray to be the inaugural president.
50 Years Ago
- Wagga’s Mayor, Ald Morris Gissing, made a special inspection of flood ravaged North Wagga accompanied Mr David Fairbairn, Member for Farrer, the city engineer, Mr Colin Knott and Mr George Brown, the Civil Defence regional controller.
- The Murrumbidgee River flooded to heights greater than any recorded this century and levee banks are continuing to be patrolled 24 hours a day as water begins to recede.
- Lady Persia Galleghan, Divisional Commandant of Voluntary Aid Service Corps of NSW is in Wagga to meet and talk with members of the Wagga Corps who have controlled catering arrangements during the flood danger.
- Chamber of Commerce vice-president, Gordon Braid said that Wagga business houses were indebted to the hundreds of volunteers who worked feverishly on levee banks over the weekend.
- After meeting with the Mayor, Ald M H Gissing and City Engineer, Mr C C Knott, Member for Wagga, Mr Wal Fife agreed that the State Government would meet at least half the cost of permanent works to strengthen Wagga’s levee banks.
- More than 250 delegates are attending the first ever conference of the Australian Council for Educational Administration being held at the Wagga Agricultural College.
- Hardys which began in Wagga 112 years ago is now celebrating its 50th anniversary in Chaston Street with plans to significantly increase its presence there this year.
- Tickets for the Wagga Stock Agents and Buyers Ball can be obtained from the office of R H Blake & Co in Fitzmaurice Street.
- Huthwaites are selling Betty Sydney cake mixes, 368g for 24 cents, Bingo custard powder, 12oz for 27 cents and granny smith apples for 48 cents a dozen.
- North Wagga back flanker, Peter Pascoe has won the Elders Metals – Killrust Riverina Rookie of the Year Award.
- Wagga based W G Huthwaite Group announced a net trading profit of $165,450 for the last financial year, up from $118,818 the previous year.
- Wagga City Council has authorised social worker, Sue Vardon to establish a five-unit family day care program in the city.
- Wagga City Council reported that Wagga gas consumers use more than twice as much gas as most other people in Australia.
- Building construction in Wagga last financial year totalled $17,358,681, with work beginning on 505 dwellings, 413 of which were in the private sector
- Wagga City Golf Club finances were dealt a “body blow” by a $2900 rates bill following Wagga City Council’s decision to levy on the Wagga Racecourse area.
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