Ansett and Kendell airlines announced an upgrade of regional air services in Wagga and Albury which would create more than 30 jobs and increase the number of weekly flights to Sydney.

McDonald's Australia chief executive Charlie Bell paid a visit to Wagga's two McDonald's restaurants, including McCafe Wagga - the first to open in NSW.

Wagga farmers and gardeners are hoping for rain to prevent March 1995 being the driest March on record.

President of the Wagga branch of the Labor Party and defeated Labor party candidate for the seat of Wagga Col McPherson declared he would become the "shadow member for Wagga" until the next election.

In his "Editor's Desk" column, Daily Advertiser editor Michael McCormack called for the introduction of "first past the post" election voting.

Simon Terry has been appointed chief of staff at the Daily Advertiser, replacing Geoff Dixon who is now public relations officer for Nabalco at Gove in the Northern Territory.

Miss Australia 1970 Rhonda Iffland was given a warm welcome at a Mayoral Reception hosted by deputy mayor Alderman Gissing.

Kentucky Fried Chicken is advertising for new staff, male and female, senior and junior, permanent part-time and casual for its new store at 174 Fitzmaurice Street.

Wagga motel managers have been forced to turn away hundreds of visitors during one of the city's busiest ever Easter periods.

Edmondson's are advertising CSR pure cane sugar 4lb for 39c, Golden Circle Beetroot 15oz tins for 11 cents and Kellogg's Corn Flakes 16 oz packets for 32 cents.

Council's industrial promotion offer, Joe McManamon said that 40 students from New England University are making an intensive study of Wagga's growth since World War II.

WWDHS apologises for an error in last week's column in which the surname of Constable Kenneth Cluff, who died from first and second-degree burns suffered in a petrol explosion was wrongly spelt as Constable Kenneth Clough.