Compiled from The Daily Advertiser by the Wagga Wagga & District Historical Society
25 YEARS AGO
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Junee farmer, Bill Heffernan, is planning big changes as the newly-elected president of the NSW State Liberal Party.
Charles Sturt University, lecturer Fred Goldsworthy, won the 1993 Vice Chancellors Award for Teaching Excellence.
Wagga Rotaract judged Vasey Street as Wagga’s “Best Kept Street” and presented an award to Con Salmon, the street’s first resident.
Peak hour traffic in Edward Street was thrown into chaos by the collapse of an old concrete sewer main.
Pamela Bell and Peter Dunn from Charles Sturt University’s have won a key role in a new multi-university National Rural Health Unit.
Students from Sturt Public School visited Parliament House in Canberra with teachers, Heather Collins and Judy Cuncombe.
Deputy Mayor, John Harding, presented awards to winners of the annual stamp competitive display competition organised by the Wagga Stamp Club and judged by Charles Houen.
The Defence Housing Authority announced plans to spend a further $2 million constructing 22 dwellings in Wagga.
Council has approved an application for a proposed childcare centre in Moorong Street valued at $120,000.
50 YEARS AGO
IN HIS annual report, Brother Farrell, Principal of St Michael’s Regional High School said that parents and teachers could be guilty of failing to exact obedience and respect from children.
Mr Ben Koth who founded in Wagga, one of the largest structural engineering businesses outside of the capital cities, has died.
Margaret McCrae and Michael Keys of St Andrew’s Presbyterian Fellowship are pictured in The Daily Advertiser assisting in the Community Food Drive for the Smith Family.
Senior needlework teacher at Mt Erin High School, Mrs G Devine, organised two days of instruction in social deportment and personal care for fourth form students at the school.
Representatives of most of Wagga’s religious communities attended the first ecumenical service at Wagga’s Carmel of Our Lady Queen of Peace.
More than 3000 people attended the Kooringal Carnival organised by the Kooringal Community Advancement Fund.
Ron Graham bowled a brilliant 278 game to record the highest score bowled in a tournament this year at the Wagga Tenpin Bowling Club.
Ian Bell, proprietor of Bell’s Soft Drinks presented $100 in crisp $2 notes to fourteen-year-old, Raymond Fuller, winner of the Bell’s Soft Drinks bottle top competition.
Wagga Cricketer, Phillip Gannon top scored for Riverina in the first round of the PSAAA carnival against Newcastle in Sydney.