26th July 2025
Compiled from the Daily Advertiser by the Wagga Wagga & District Historical Society.
25 Years Ago
- Wagga stock and station identity and company director, Peter Humble, has been appointed to a key advisory group to the New South Wales Minister for Fair Trading, John Watkins.
- Progress on the new Foodway supermarket at Lake Village has its new owners, Ian Lloyd and Ian Porter confident of a reopening of the store early next month.
- Wagga Local Area Commander, Acting Superintendent, Tom Murphy, said a new police station for Wagga has not been completely ruled out despite renovations at the present Sturt Street premises.
- Joey Scout, Connor Roberts is pictured lending a hand at the Wagga Scouts Tree Planting.
- Greater Murray Area Health Service community dietitian, Carolyn Adams, is pictured conducting a supermarket “sleuth tour” advising individuals how to increase the variety of nutritious foods in their diet.
- Strong ties between Wagga High School and Narita Kita High School in Japan have been cemented even further with another exchange visit to Australia.
- Geoff and Verell Hockey of Lake Albert won the Wagga Tidy Towns Committee, Best Garden of the Season Award.
- Former Wagga man Peter Worsley, a paraplegic, whose neck was broken in 1987 while playing rugby union with Wagga Agricultural College has been named in the Australian Paralympic shooting team.
- Local radio identity, Barry Anderson, has developed a TAFE Outreach Community Broadcast course open to 15 local unemployed people.
- One job will go, and the Council will save $30,000 in salary costs following a major restructuring within the Department of Engineering and Technical Services proposed by the department’s director, Gary Wells.
- Holy Trinity Primary School students Caroline Baggio, Jacinta Neiberding and Alyisha House will travel to Wollongong later this year to take part in the PSSA touch championships.
- RAAF base Wagga is celebrating 60 years in Wagga.
- A Vietnamese delegation visited Wagga to study salinity solutions as part of a study tour of Australian Landcare and natural resource management.
- Wagga Chamber of Commerce and Industry president, Steve Atkinson confirmed that Woolworth’s chief executive, Roger Corbett would address a business luncheon at the RSL Club.
- The Uniting Care Aged Care Network will host a three-day conference at Charles Sturt University’s Joyes Hall, which will raise several issues regarding aged care services.
- Wagga City Council selected one of its own divisions as the successful tender for a million-dollar netball development of the Equex site.
50 Years Ago
- Mayor Ald Dick Gorman claimed that the people of the Riverina would be better off seeding from N.S.W. and joining Victoria adding that the N.S.W. Government thinks the initials N.S.W. stand for Newcastle Sydney and Wollongong.
- The N.S.W. Premier, Mr Lewis responded saying that Wagga and the Riverina would be better off staying N.S.W. and that Ald Gorman could live in Victoria, but he should not try to take Wagga with him.
- Mr Neil Munro of Coolamon has been selected as the State President of Rural Youth.
- The Kooringal Sports Club has six new squash almost complete and is inviting members of the public to take permanent bookings.
- Mrs Peter Crozier of the Wagga Potters Club and the Mayor, Ald. Dick Gorman are pictured admiring an embroidered wall hanging which is part which is part of exhibitions being staged at the Council Chambers by the Wagga Embroiders Guild and the Potters Club.
- The Boy Scouts “Bobs for Jobs” week has started and members of the First, Second and Fifth Wagga Boy Scouts are pictured on their first job, cleaning the mobile units of the Wagga Rescue Club.
- Australian Professional Snooker Champion, Eddie Charlton, demolished Wagga’s seven top players by 722 to 527 in the Winfield exhibition match at the Wagga R.S.L. Club.
- As a forerunner to Guide Week, Michelle Wild a member of the Brownies, 1st Turvey Park Group is pictured planting a commemorative tree in the yard of the Home of Compassion.
- Wagga and District shearers voted 89 to 4 in favour of striking at least until August 3.
- A $230,000 grant given to Wagga City Council in the Grants Commission Scheme for 1975-76 has been earmarked for social services in the city including the salary of a social worker, tourism, the purchase of land and housing for sports amenities.
- The Wagga Abattoir is making more money this year than last year despite large cost increases however it is still running at a loss.
- The annual Wagga City Quota Club Bowls Tournament raised more than $350 for the Red Shield Appeal attracting a field of 168 players and was won by the Commercial team of Alan McFadyen, Bill Blake, Bert Crapp and Wal Blake.
- A cheque for $4450 was presented by the Wagga Base Hospital Auxiliary to Hospital Chairman, Mr L. Kennedy for the Hospitals equipment and special purposes fund.
- The 1975 Riverina District Associates Golf Association championship was won by Mrs Judy Beck.
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