ON THIS DAY - Shoalhaven Holidays

- On This Day -
16 1915 The telephone was installed in the Pyree Post Office (the third post
office for Pyree and part of the Pyree School and Residence).
MAY 12
MAY 13
1 1828 Surveyor Thomas Florance surveyed from Burrill to Narrawallee
which he called Nurrahwherree.
1 1895 Opening of the first temporary David Berry Hospital at Broughton
Creek (later Berry).
MAY 14
1 1938 Bomaderry water and electricity were officially turned on by H J Bate,
MLA. Water was secured from a dam on Bomaderry Creek whilst
electricity, extended to Berry and later to Bomaderry in 1927 and was
distributed to the rural areas of Bolong, Back Forest, Coolangatta,
Jerry Bailey, Meroo, Jasper's Brush and Broughton Village, ten years
later.
MAY 15
20 1797 Three survivors of the wreck of the "Sydney Cove" were picked up by
a fishing boat 14 miles south of Botany Bay. They were a Mr Clark,
a European sailor and a lascar. These were all that remained of a
party of 17 who had attempted to walk from Point Hicks to Port
Jackson. The "Sydney Cove" had been beached on an island in the
Furneaux group, north-west of an Dieman's Land. Some of the
survivors attempted to make Sydney by longboat but in turn were
wrecked at Point Hicks.
The three were the first white men to traverse the Shoalhaven by
land.
1 1828 Surveyor Thomas Florance went up Narrawallee Creek to within half
a mile of the location of the present bridge on the Princes Highway.
1 1926 Opening of the Country Women's Association rest rooms in Central
Park, Berry Street, Nowra.
MAY 16
1 1890 Establishment of a receiving Post Office at Bellawongarah.
30