ON THIS DAY - Shoalhaven Holidays

- On This Day -
OCTOBER 23
1 1878 Formation of the Masonic Lodge, Milton, with Thomas Hobbs as
Worshipful Master.
23 1891 An urgent petition from the citizens of the Milton area reached the
Minister for Public Instruction in Sydney urging the closure of the
Milton and Croobyar public schools due to "prevalence of so
contagious and dangerous an epidemic as influenza......".
1 1965 Huskisson Swimming Pool officially opened by Hon. Davis Hughes,
Minister for Public Works.
OCTOBER 24
OCTOBER 25
2 1996 The Commonwealth Bank Cycle Classic came to Nowra for the first
time. Sponsored by the Shoalhaven Tourism Board and the Nowra
Central Business District Committee the Classic arrived in Nowra at
12.16pm after a gruelling 93 kilometre ride from Wollongong, up
Macquarie Pass, through the Highlands, down Barrengarry
Mountain, through Kangaroo Valley, up Cambewarra Mountain,
down Cambewarra Mountain and on into Nowra.
OCTOBER 26
One Rider was timed by Police as doing 110 kilometres per hour
down Cambewarra Mountain, in a 60 kph zone.
After the 70 riders arrived in Nowra there was a “trishaw” race which
was followed by the 70 riders competing in a 32 lap criterium around
Kinghorne Street, Smiths Lane, O’keefe Avenue and North Street.
The addition of the Nowra leg gave the race more mountainous
stages to test the endurance of the riders.
1 1868 Proclaimation of the Municipality of "Broughton Creek and
Bomaderry".
1 1868 Proclaimation of the Municipality of Numbaa.
7 1886 The steel screw steamer "Coomonderry", especially built for David
Berry in Scotland and sailed out under its own steam, first arrived at
Bomaderry wharf. It was a 147 ton steamer and travelled weekly
between Sydney and Bomaderry. The steamer (under various
owners and plying various routes) saw an active life of 83 years,
finally coming to grief on a reef, 500 miles south of Fiji, on 7 October
1969.
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