Riverina Health Service chair Joy Ross is seeking an urgent meeting with Health Minister Andrew Refshauge to push for reinstatement of redevelopment funding at Wagga Base Hospital, which has been cut from an estimated $4.2 million to $1 million in this week's state budget.

Show Society secretary Bruce Mulqueeny estimated that attendances and gate takings at the Wagga Show were the highest in the 130-year history of the event.

Murdoch McLennan stepped down as a Murrumbidgee Turf Club committeeman after 32 years on the board, the past seven as president.

Sturt Mall owner Marjen Pty Ltd signalled its intention to take legal action in a bid to block the $24 million Woolworths development planned for Baylis Street.

A new Wagga Main Street Committee with interim chairman, Bob Connolly called a public meeting in a bid to make the central business district a "vibrant and people-friendly place".

Husband and wife team Jill Garner and Lindsay Davis from Melbourne won the international competition to design Wagga's proposed $12 million civic centre.

Restoration work on the Ladysmith Railway Station is going full steam ahead with the unveiling of a plaque commemorating the start of fund raising.

Well-known local travel consultants Lisa Pleming, Darryl Jones and Melanie Childs joined together at Jetset Travel in Baylis Street.

North Wagga Australian Football Club held its presentation night with award winners including Steven Ryan, Dean Parry and Paul M Irvine.

Wagga's "Grey Ghost" parking patrol officers remained working despite work bans imposed in metropolitan areas.

CSU lecturer Roland Bannister returned from a trip to Croatia, where he presented a paper at a study group conference of the International Council for Traditional Music.

Mount Austin High School principal Mr C S Oliver banned sixth form pupils from the school to avert last day pranks.

District telephone manager Mr F W Earle told the Member for Farrer, Mr Fairbairn that rapid development south of Fernleigh Road had exhausted telephone cable availability and no new connections would be possible for at least five months.

David Jones company chairman, Charles Lloyd Jones said that David Jones was considering a number of proposals for the future operation of its Wagga store which had not been trading as profitably as other branch stores.

More than 100 Wagga and District Scouts based at Oura are taking part in the worldwide "Jamboree of the Air".

Ellen Sullivan, 96, was named as Wagga's oldest resident in a competition conducted in conjunction with the opening of the Coles New World Supermarket in Gurwood Street.

Teachers College students voted 260 to 34 to strike for three days in a protest due to the inadequacy of recent student salary increases.

The first Wagga Postal Institute Ball was held at the Police Boys Club.

Top Riverina golfers, Jim Stenmark and Jim Speirs were locked together on 156 at the head of a large field after the first 36 holes of the 1970 Wagga Country Club Golf Championships.