 The day after the opening, as preparations were being made for the first mass, a storm knocked down the rear wall of the church.Rebuilding the wall delayed the first mass until 5 December 1954.The only recorded case of a suspected murder in Wyangala village occurred in July 1935, when the coroner, Mr H. D. Pulling found the death of Mr John Neilson, a worker at the dam, was caused by a bullet wound to the head.