Compiled from the Daily Advertiser by the Wagga Wagga & District Historical Society
25 YEARS AGO
Principal of Mount Erin High School, Gerard Madden has also become the first lay teacher to be appointed as principal of Trinity Senior High School.
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Moves are under way to make an official complaint about Alderman Jim Eldridge to the Anti-Discrimination Board for his recent verbal attacks on Aborigines.
Wagga Base Children’s ward is facing chronic overcrowding with extra cots now lining the hallway.
Wagga City Council held a special meeting to honour former member for Hume, Wal Fife, for dedicating his working life to the city.
Police Senior Sergeant Terry O’Connell and farmer Bernard Hart have been awarded Churchill Fellowships, allowing them to undertake overseas study tours.
Joy Ross has been appointed as chairperson of the new Riverina Health Service.
Wagga man John Cullen has invented a potentially life-saving electric switch but has been forced to take the idea overseas for manufacture.
Western Airlines, which ceased its Albury to Canberra service this week, has cut back staff in Wagga but director Max Cochrane says the airline is flying as normal.
50 YEARS AGO
Two Wagga men were killed when the Intercapital Daylight Express smashed into their utility at the Fernleigh Road level crossing.
The old Oxford Theatre in Fitzmaurice Street which was established in 1923 at the old Riverina Hall is being demolished.
A group of 23 secretarial students from the Wagga Technical College are making a two-day visit to Sydney with Mr A J Williams, head teacher of commercial subjects to survey positions which may be available to them when they graduate.
A new modern 12-unit motel, owned by Mr and Mrs Aub Davis and to be known as the Motel Ashmont, has opened on the Sturt Highway.
Don Jones Tyre Service on the corner of Baylis and Edward streets is to be redeveloped as a service station.
Manager of the Wagga tenpin bowling centre, Peter Wilkins came fifth in the NSW men’s A grade singles championship.
Seventeen-year-old Phillip Webster of Christian Brothers High School was named best and fairest player in the Hardy Shield match between Christian Brothers and Wagga High School.
President, Mr E Davis reported to the third annual meeting of the Wagga Leagues Club Anglers’ Club that membership was growing.
Wagga Country Club C Grader Basil McMullen won his second monthly medal with a net 67.
