North Wagga was evacuated in anticipation of the Murrumbidgee River reaching a height of 34 feet. The river subsequently peaked at 35 foot, 2 inches inundating almost all of the 200 houses in North Wagga with between five and eight feet of water.
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Two thousand people packed the Wagga Leagues Club Auditorium and Weissel Room to show their support for a proposed cancer-fighting radiotherapy centre in Wagga.
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Outgoing president, John Mueller, handed over to incoming president, Graham Negline, at the 13th annual handover dinner of South Wagga Apex Club held at the Wagga Leagues Club.
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Wagga clay pigeon shooting champion, Barney Rooke, who is leaving this week for several weeks in the United States, won the City of Wagga doubles championship with his son, Michael at the Wagga Gun Club.
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Premier, Bob Carr, presented Michael Knight, proprietor of Knights Meats with an award for safety and excellence in the meat retailing industry.

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A retrospective exhibition of the work of former Daily Advertiser photographer, Tom Lennon is being held at the Riverina Playhouse.

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A capacity crowd, including Mr Doug Thomas and his wife Yvonne, packed the newly restored Plaza Theatre Ballroom for the Home of Compassion Ball.
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The Wagga Chamber of Commerce is organising a two-day seminar called “Riverina 1984” which will explore where authorities think the Riverina is headed in the next ten years.
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Tim Fischer quit as deputy prime minister and National Party leader because he believed the job, and particularly the heavy burden of travel as Trade Minister, was hurting his family and could kill him.
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Kooringal High School principal, Frank Nethery, retired after 44 years in the teaching profession and is pictured with school captains, Geoff Fisher and Cecily Collison and the new acting principal Mr McDowell.
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