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Bob Osborne Skills Centre 208 Fernleigh Road Wagga Wagga NSW. Google map of location.

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Wagga Wagga Cattle Driving Bill
Study of prostitution in Wagga Wagga 1870 - 1890
Parkview Public School (page does not exist)
Leeton High school (minimal information available)
Leeton Art Deco Festival
Henry Lawson Cottage Leeton
Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser
Wagga early militia unit G Coy 1st Regiment NSW Infantry
West Wyalong New South Wales
Gundagai Timelines and links.

Gundagai's Famous Prince Alfred Bridge and the Railway Viaduct c1900.
Parade of early militia units, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia, c1880: G Coy 1st Regiment NSW Infantry, Murrumbidgee Light Horse, Wagga Town Band.
Wagga Wagga Town band, c1900.
G Coy 1st Regiment NSW Infantry, Wagga Wagga, c1894
Joseph and Silvio (Siv) Palazzi, G Coy 1st Regiment NSW Infantry, c1899.
Returning soldiers from the Boer War, c1900
Left to Right: JR Edney, JF Palazzi, WT Annison, AJ Twyford, E Sawtell, SA Palazzi. Front: J Nicholson (G Coy Staff Colour Sergeant)
Memorial to Joseph Palazzi, killed in action Boer War, Collins Park, Wagga Wagga
Henry Lawson outside his cottage in 1916
Leeton Intermediate High School, taken 12 October 1927 showing the “Old building” opened by Hon H.D. Hutch M.L.A. Minister for education

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