21st December 2024
Compiled from the Daily Advertiser by the Wagga Wagga & District Historical Society.
25 Years Ago
- Member for Riverina, Mrs Kay Hull said that improved Work for the Dole program delivery arrangements will mean more places and more projects in the Riverina.
- Sherry Morris launched her latest book, Wagga Wagga Memories, a collection of photos and interesting facts about Wagga’s history.
- Tumba Rail, a group of 13 Ladysmith residents has been formed to set up a tourist train ride near the town.
- Legacy’s Bill McPherson is pictured with freshly cut pine Christmas trees which were collected by army recruits from Tumut, and which are now on sale at Legacy House for $5 each.
- Ladysmith couple Alf and Joan Barklem are celebrating 60 years of marriage and are pictured with a congratulatory letter from Queen Elizabeth ll.
- Athol Street residents flicked the switch on their annual Christmas light celebrations on Saturday night.
- For the thirteenth year John and Maria Egan at Wagga’s Studio Image has run their annual toy appeal in which anyone who donates a toy, which goes to St Vincent de Paul, is entitled to a free portrait.
- Wagga’s Oasis Club raised $22,000 for the radiotherapy cancer centre appeal with a competition with major prizes being a 10-day cruise on the Norwegian Star and a Gold Coast holiday.
- Members of the Golden Gown Committee, Therese Woolnough, Cynthia Tippler, Jodi Quinlivan, Robyn Kendall, Fay Grant, Cathie Smith, Karenne Connors, John Jones and Tony Baillie met for the final time this millennium.
- Dave Skinner will coach Wagga Magpies next year after the club moved swiftly to find a replacement for last season’s leader Mick McDermott.
- The Junee-Bomen Road link has been completed and sealed.
- Several local charitable organisations received cheques from the Cecil and Kathleen Toy Memorial Fund.
- After months of sitting on the fence Wagga City Council has finally put its support behind the controversial Wagga Liquor Accord.
- The NSW Branch of the Australian Hotels Association has called for the scrapping of the 1am curfew which is a central feature of the Wagga Liquor Accord describing it as unworkable and impractical.
- Wagga businessman, Peter Walsh is the new president of the Wagga Aero Club.
- Ian Begg has been elected as new chairman of the Wagga Business Enterprise Centre.
- Wagga City Council rejected a proposal to establish an “adult” shop in Fitzmaurice Street ruling that sex shops have no place in the city of Wagga.
50 Years Ago
- Two days of anxiety for Wagga and district families ended at Wagga Airport when the first evacuees from Darwin arrived.
- Wagga’s contribution to aid victims of the Darwin Cyclone tragedy will take the form of a doorknock campaign and sending line crews to help reconstruct essential services in the devasted city.
- The St Vincent de Paul Society is also accepting donations of non-perishable food and light clothing for Darwin Cyclone victims.
- Mr Rod Hore, the first manager of Dalgety’s Wagga branch in 1923 cut a ribbon to mark the official opening of the new Dalgety premises on the corner of Trail and Crampton Streets.
- John Ansell will lead his well-known Riverina Jazz Band for the last time at the New Years Eve Arts Ball next week.
- Miss Kim Barrett has won a trip to New Zealand under the South Wagga Lions Youth Exchange program and was presented with her tickets by Youth Exchange Chairman, Jim Wright and South Wagga Lions president, Ian Mortimer.
- With the Southern Riverina Council announcing a 50 per cent increase in water rates, Wagga homeowner, George Batten is considering investigating the supply potential of an old well he has uncovered in the backyard of his Freer Street home.
- Bobo baby sitting agency is advertising honest, reliable sitters are available day and night for 80 cents per hour or $1 per hour after midnight.
- There were two babies born at Calvary Hospital on Christmas Day. Margaret Loftus of Mount Austin and her son, Sean Robert and Sue Jenkins of Narrandera Road Wagga with her daughter Kylie are pictured in the Daily Advertiser.
- Jenny Crowther, a talented young English actress from London is spending Christmas with her cousin, Mrs Kath Higgins at her home in Wollundry Avenue.
- All police leave has been cancelled to curb the Christmas Road toll in the Riverina.
- Holiday makers are reminded that the Daily Advertiser is available at the Corso Newsagency, Manly each day on the day following publication.
- Council reaffirmed a previous decision to have two garbage services a week, every week.
- Police Boys (1) met with their stiffest opposition of the season before downing Police Boys (2) in the Wagga Touch Football Association’s A grade grand final at Eric Weissell Oval.
- A thief snatched $1300 in notes which was being prepared for banking at Mackenzies Newsagency in Baylis Street.
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