ON THIS DAY - Shoalhaven Holidays

- On This Day -
Commissioner Lyne said "He was afraid they would have to wait a
little longer before it was extended......". (We're still waiting!)
(There is some confusion as to this date as other reports place the
event as 3 June 1893).
JUNE 3
7 & 13 1893 Opening of the railway between Kiama and Bomaderry. The cost
was £359,692/-/-.
15 1981 The M.V. Tasman Sea, the last wooden vessel to be built at
Huskisson, towed the Lady Denman the last part of the way into
Currumbene Creek to tie up to the Rotary Wharf at Huskisson.
JUNE 4
1 1958 A trial run of the South Coast Daylight Express was made by a diesel
electric locomotive. This was successful and afterwards the train
service from Sydney to Bomaderry was regularly hauled by diesel.
1 1972 Official opening of Radio 2ST by Shoalhaven Shire President, Clr.
John Hatton.
22 1993 Lunar Eclipse. Moon Rise 16:36. Moon set 06:23. Magnitude
1.57. Partial Phase began 21:15. Total Phase began 22:15. Time
of maximum eclipse 23:03. Total Phase ended 23:51. Partial
Phase ended 0:52.
Extensive cloud cover in the evening. Over most of the Shoalhaven
the cloud cover disapated around 21:00 hours which gave a good
viewing through to the start of the total phase, when the cloud then
closed in and obscured all future viewing for the night.
JUNE 5
26 1888 The last Aborigine of the Wodi Wodi tribe of Kangaroo Valley, Mrs
Mary Maria Lindsay, died. With her death the 23,000 years (maybe
40,000 years) of Aborigine life in Kangaroo Valley came to an end.
There is no grave for Mrs Lindsay in the Valley Cemetery.
16 1921 Patrick Caffery III and Miss Celia Watts were killed in an automobile
accident on the way home from church on Greenwell Point Road at
the bend known locally as Apperley's Hill. This was possibly
Shoalhaven's first car fatality.
13 1958 Opening of the Rural Youth (Junior Farmers) Hall next to the
Agricultural Hall, Berry, by Mr McTackett, past president of the State
Council of Junior Farmers.
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