It was the end of an era last week when Hay’s pharmacist of close to 70 years finally passed on the baton.

“The time has come,” Allan Japp told The Riverine Grazier after signing over his share of Japp’s Pharmacy to Mina Malek who had been working with him for the past two-and-a-half years.

Bruce Wall shared with us the legacy of his family in Hay NSW.

Ronald Alfred Wall was born on June 28, 1901 in Hay at the family home in Church Street.

Ron Wall traded as Hay Furniture Mart from the beginning of his enterprise in 1932 to 1957, when the company was restructured, including a name change to Hay Furniture Co.

Before Hollywood descended on the southern Riverina township of Hay, in NSW, to film part of ‘Mad Max Furiosa’ in 2022 the tiny township already boasted an impressive bio.

Movies such as ‘True love & Chaos,’ ‘Child Lost on Goolumbulla’ and ‘Charlie and Boots’ have been filmed at Hay, as well as the dark TV series ‘Mr Inbetween’, TV advertisements and Shannon Noll’s award winning film clip.

11 of best places to eat in Hay, NSW, as voted by the locals

Finding the best meals in any town requires a great deal of insider information – the best way to find out what is on offer is to ask a local!

The Riverine Grazier asked residents of the Riverina township of Hay where their favourite places to eat are, and which menu items are always at the top of the list.

“Hay is very spoilt for choice,” one local commented. “I don’t think I’ve had a bad meal at any of our local food outlets.”

Here are the very best meals in Hay, NSW right now.

Read on to learn more about Hay’s touching tribute for returned service men and women; the beautiful painted water towers, overlooking Sandy Point Reserve.

Bishop’s Lodge Historic House in Hay, NSW is a remarkable iron building constructed in 1889 as the official residence for the Anglican Bishop of Riverina.

The house and its 19th-century garden are now maintained as a house museum by the Bishop’s Lodge Management Committee.

Owned by the Anglican Diocese until 1946, the Lodge was home to the first three bishops -Sydney Linton, Ernest Anderson, and Reginald Halse. Between 1935 and 1946 it also became the Linton House hostel for boys attending the Hay War Memorial High School. From 1946 until 1985 it was a private residence.