27th June 2026
Compiled from the Daily Advertiser by the Wagga Wagga & District Historical Society.
25 Years Ago
- About 700 members from a wide cross-section of unions packed into the Leagues Club to condemn workers’ compensation reforms in what organisers claimed was the biggest gathering of rank-and-file unionists ever seen in Wagga.
- Nixon’s Engineering is undertaking a $200,000 expansion of its Hammond Avenue site, which will allow the company to offer a wider range of services and offer an additional five jobs on top of the 20 people already employed.
- Wagga rallied around the embattled Murrumbidgee Life Education Centre with business houses pledging more than $2,500 after the City Council declined to contribute.
- Richard and David Hendriks, along with Diana Erratt and Anne-Marie Tucker, are pictured with lawyer Harry Hendriks, celebrating his retirement.
- Victoria Hughes has been awarded a $2000 Students prize from the Commonwealth Government for topping the State in the Maths in Practice HSC exam last year.
- Nyn Hamilton, daughter of the late “Father of Jazz”, John Ansell, has won the prestigious Ron Foale Award at the Merimbula Jazz Festival.
- John Treloar and Mick Fuller presented the Wagga Lodge Sirius Prize for Technical and Further Education achievement to Melyssa Nelson for her studies in primary school teaching.
- The C D Blake Experimental Winery, named in honour of retiring vice-chancellor Cliff Blake, was officially opened by Chancellor David Asimus and New South Wales Agriculture director general Dr Kevin Sheridan.
- Wagga Public School students, Yifang Wu, Georgina Mullins, Charlotte Mills and Nicole Camlin have been rewarded for their efforts in helping others and displaying good behaviour by sharing a pizza meal with principal, Jim Roworth.
- Retiring curator of the Museum of the Riverina, Colin Carlin, is pictured with Mayor Kevin Wales.
- Scott Lewington has relocated the South Wagga butchery from Edward Street to the South Wagga Market.
- An information night was held to launch Drug Awareness Week.
- Sue Wishart and Sue Chapman are pictured at a Wagga Knitters Club garment and yarn sale raising money for the Cancer Council’s Biggest Morning Tea.
- Owners of Gazelle Photographics, Pat and Yvonne McDonell, are retiring and have put the building at 194 Baylis Street on the market.
- Wagga’s petrol prices are hovering just under $1, while at Tarcutta, Holbrook and Albury, prices are close to 90 cents.
- The controversial banning by Wagga City Council of skateboards along the Baylis Street footpath has been hailed as an overwhelming success by Director of Community Services, John Craig.
50 Years Ago
- Wagga City Council and Wagga Tennis Association have entered into an agreement for a 20-year lease for the new tennis headquarters, which will be built within the Bolton Park sporting complex.
- Mrs Margaret Hedley, Regional Commissioner for Girl Guides, presented Queen’s badges to Andrea Simmons and Heather Grimmond.
- The old Leagues Club tennis clubhouse is now home to Wagga’s new Casual Day Care Centre, thanks in part to Central Wagga Lions Club, the Riverina Council for Social Development, and members of the Casual Day Care Committee.
- Yo-yo king of the Gurwood Street Public School, Troy Conlan, is pictured demonstrating with his yo-yo how to “rock the baby”.
- Mr Bill de Maria, Director of Social Planning for the Riverina Council for Social Development, is one of 16 people in N.S.W. to be awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 1977.
- Members of the Band of the First Recruit Training Battalion, Kapooka, will present a variety concert in the Civic Theatre to aid the Apex Microsurgery Appeal.
- Community Social Worker, Jeff Marjoram, is pictured with Junior Aldermen Brian Heaney, Jane Anderson and Andrea Summers, at the newly formed Youth Council of the City of Wagga, which held its second ordinary meeting at the Wagga City Council Chambers.
- More than 450 people attended a complimentary dinner at the Australian Rules Club in honour of Federal member for Farrer, Mr Wal Fife.
- Mr Trevor Forbes of Sheekey, Williams and Nitschke addressed pupils at Wagga High School as part of a program conducted by the Wagga legal profession.
- Noel Stoyes is the manager of Huthwaites new store in the Ashmont Mall.
- Anthony Kenning is conducting a cake decorating class at the Wagga Technical College.
- Rettke’s Meat Centre is now open in the Ashmont Mall and is selling 3 lb of mince steak or sausages for $1, legs of lamb for 65 cents per lb and grilling steak, 79 cents per lb.
- Wagga Parking Patrol Officer, Michael North, is pictured wearing his new uniform.
- General Manager, Mr L Turner, said that the Wagga Commerce Permanent Building Society had approved a record of almost $7 million in housing loans for 257 dwellings in the year ending 30 June 1976.
- World-renowned Jazz Band, the Graham Bell All Stars, will provide the music at the ball being held in the Plaza Theatre, to celebrate American Independence Day.
- Wagga Apex Club has failed to gain Wagga City Council permission to paint house numbers on the kerb in front of dwellings in the city area.
Membership of the Wagga Wagga and District Historical Society is open to anyone with an interest in the local and regional history of Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia. For more information about us and information on how to join our Society, visit our website at https://www.wwdhs.org.au/about-us/members
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