Compiled from the Daily Advertiser by the Wagga Wagga & District Historical Society
25 YEARS AGO
Long-time Calvary Hospital employee Kathy Lloyd was farewelled by chairman of the Calvary Hospital board Wal Fife and a large crowd after 43 years of service, in which she had only one sick day.
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Wagga's police patrol commander, Chief Inspector Kevin Wales, has been relocated to Sydney for up to three months just two weeks after speaking out about Wagga's soaring crime figures.
The inaugural Wagga Swap Meet was a resounding success with 6000 people crowding into the Wagga Showground.
Ken McPherson proposed to Kristine Carroll by having a banner towed by a small plane above Baylis Street.
Chris Mooney, president of the Wagga Ratepayers and Citizens Association, has condemned a council sub-committee recommendation to proceed with the development of a cultural centre in Gurwood Street's Northside Shopping Centre at a cost of $8.4 million.
Colin Earnshaw, senior Wagga City Council engineer said the old Tarcutta Street gas works site was being fenced off in preparation for an environmental restoration project expected to cost $400,000.
Wagga golfer Marcia Woo became the first player to record a hole-in-one at the recently opened North Wagga Palms nine holes course.
Ten beams, the first of 190 beams, have been placed over two spans of the Gobba Bridge being built to cross the Murrumbidgee River.
50 YEARS AGO
Following recent heavy rains, Lake Albert which reached its lowest level for many years less than 18 months ago, is now over-running its floodgates and causing local flooding.
Wagga City Baths admission cost will increase by 100 per cent to 20 cents.
Hotels are being planned soon for Ashmont and Tolland with Mr Brian Kennedy, who is acting on behalf of both companies, confident that licences will be approved soon.
Council authorised Town Planner, Sel Rawlings and Building Inspector, Keith Bassett to begin planning of a $140,000 lawn cemetery and crematorium.
Det Sgt Norman Sheather from Wagga is heading a four-man police team probing a $300,000 stock fraud involving at least 37,00 sheep and 600 cattle across Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria.
Edmondson's is selling 4lb packets of CSR sugar for 38 cents, Betty Sydney Cake mix for 18 cents and half a gallon of Streets Vanilla Ice Cream for 56 cents.