Compiled from The Daily Advertiser by the Wagga Wagga & District Historical Society
25 YEARS AGO
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Associate Professor Alan Nichol says that Charles Sturt University – Riverina could become the wine and cheese link for the region with plans to set up a cheese factory on its Wagga campus.
Rob Stone has taken over as President of the Rotary Club of Wagga Wagga Sunrise from Rod Parsons.
John Craig has been appointed as Wagga City Council’s new director of health and building services following the resignation of Alan Larcombe.
The annual half marathon and 10km Fun Run was held at the Wagga Boat Club course with Robert McDonald and Carmel Kahlefeldt winning the 10km run.
Gary Ryan, assistant principal at Ashmont Public School is retiring after more than 40 years’ service which started at Mundarlo Public School when he was 19 years of age.
Damien Milliken and David Whitelaw from Mount Austin High School are among 130 students from around the world attending the 27th International Science School at the University of Sydney’s School of Physics.
Chief inspector, Kevin Wales said a trial of volunteers in policing will begin in Wagga soon.
Kooringal High School’s production of The Seven Deadly Sins took out the grand final of the 1993 Quit 2WG Rock Eisteddfod.
50 YEARS AGO
Wagga Golf Club is applying to Wagga City Council to have 88 acres of land north of Hampden Avenue at North Wagga for a new golf course.
Bob Davies, a principal in the firm announced that Hore and Davies, Real; Estate and Travel Agents were moving into the city’s most modern office block at the 2WG building.
Riverina roads have claimed 51 lives this year, 13 more than in the first half of 1967.
Mr Les Barrand who served as an Alderman with Wagga City Council for almost 25 years and was Mayor of Wagga from 1947 until 1949 has died in Sydney.
The annual changeover dinner of the Rotary Club of South Wagga saw incoming President Doug Phipps receiving the Club Charter from retiring President Fred Mumford.
About 165 apprentices from the Forest Hill RAAF Base marched down Baylis and Fitzmaurice Streets to mark the graduation of the 20th intake of apprentices at the base.
More than 450 RAAF apprentices have had their leave suspended following a rampage through several barracks after the apprentice’s graduation ball finished at 3am.
Miss Wagga, Annette McNamara arrived home from her seven-week overseas trip.
Mr and Mrs Galva Nitschke are leaving on a 56-day overseas tour which will include a bar association conference in Dublin.