ON THIS DAY - Shoalhaven Holidays

- On This Day -
APRIL 1
26 1871 The first public school at Kangaroo Valley was opened. The teacher
was Mr Thomas Hird. The cost of the land was £6/6/8 (after some
argument) plus the 10/- for the original conveyance. The building
cost £212/-/-. On opening day there were 8 pupils, three weeks
later 27 and by February 1872 there were 55. (For comparison
purposes the annual wage of the Kangaroo Valley Post Master was
£12/-/- in 1870).
APRIL 2
1 1905 The convent school of The Good Samaritan Sisters was opened on
the corner of Junction and Shoalhaven Streets, Nowra, by Cardinal
Moran.
1 1965 The Berry Methodists' new brick hall was opened by the Sunday
School Superintendant, Athol Agar.
APRIL 3
26 1818 Dr. Charles Throsby reached Jervis Bay.
1 & 13 1886 First edition of the "Broughton Creek Register, Kangaroo Valley and
South Coast Farmer" by John MacLean. This paper took the
unusual step of carrying news on the front page instead of
advertisements. This was the second of Berry's newspapers, the
first being the Broughton Creek Mail (see 6th May). The two papers
were later amalgamated.
15 1983 The Lady Denman was firmly anchored in what was thought to be
her final resting place, within sight of the Dent Slipway, Huskisson,
were she had been built 71 years before. The Lady Denman
Committee later moved her to one side of the museum.
APRIL 4
1 1914 The final issue of the newspaper the "Nowra Colonist" before it was
incorporated in the Shoalhaven News.
1 1918 The first closure of the public school at Yalwal. It
re-opened from November, 1924 to August, 1925 and again from
March, 1926 to December, 1928 when it closed for the last time.
APRIL 5
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