Wagga Wagga War Memorial Youth Centre

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Location Wesley Uniting Church, Johnston & Tarcutta Streets, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia
Type buildings
Description

Red Brick building

At a well-attended meeting of the Methodist Church congregation on Tuesday night it was decided to proceed with the building of a War Memorial Youth Centre. The proposed building will contain a modern assembly hall with extended stage and projection room, library, reception room, junior departments, kindergarten and gymnasium. It is also intended to provide facilities for Christian teaching on Sundays and intense cultural activity with a Christian emphasis throughout the week. The building will be erected beside the new church. The Rev. N. W. Lickiss, who presided at the meeting, said that during the war there had been intense activity by the church in the interests of the young people of the Services, and in his opinion the needs of were as important today. He said that people in every walk of life were showing interest in community centre work, and it was the responsibility of the church to give a Christian emphasis to such work. "No more fitting memorial," he said, "could be erected to the young people who made the supreme sacrifice in the cause of freedom and civilisation than a Christian Youth Centre, in which shall be nurtured young people of character and vision bent on making a new world."
Daily Advertiser (Wagga Wagga, NSW ), 1 July 1948.

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Opened 25 June 1949 by The Governor Of New South Wales Lieutenant General John Northcott C. B., M. V. O.
Inscription

WAGGA WAGGA
MEMORIAL
YOUTH CENTRE

Plaque :

TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND THE SERVICE OF YOUTH

This Stone Was Set By
His Excellency The Governor Of New South Wales
Lieutenant General John Northcott C. B., M. V. O.
June 25th, 1949

Plaque :

Wagga Wagga
War Memorial
Youth Centre
In Memory Of Those Who Served

This Plaque Was Unveiled By His Excellency
The Governor Of New South Wales
Lieutenant General John Northcott C. B., M. V. O.
June 25th, 1949

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