Kiama’s well-known artillery piece makes an quiet and unannounced return to outside Kiama Council. It was captured from the Japanese at Rabaul by HMAS Kiama and later presented to the town.
It is not well known but the workboat off the HMNZ Kiama, formerly HMAS Kiama still exists
Two flags for this ship, an early flag and [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Japanese Artillery Piece Returns to Front of Kiama Council
Posted in Kiama News, What Happened in Kiama This Week on June 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
GOLD AND MYSTERY AT KILLALEA BEACH
Posted in Uncategorized on June 23, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The Killalea State Park has been embroiled in controversy from 2007 since a private resort (Killalea Eco-Resort backed by Babcock and Brown and Mariner Financial) was proposed to take over much of the public land.
It has united environmentalists, local Wodi-wodi Kooris, surfers, local Shellharbour and Shell Cove residents, the Greens, community activists, [...]
HENRY PARKES DVD NOW READY
Posted in Kiama News, What Happened in Kiama This Week on June 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Kiama Speech of Henry Parkes 1868 DVD,
presented by the Kiama and District Historical Society,
has been finished and is now on sale in the Pilot’s Cottage Museum and other sites in Kiama.
Ian Thom, descendant of Henry Parkes and President of the Henry Parkes Foundation,
came down to Kiama especially to view the final product with local [...]
WALK THROUGH KIAMA’S PAST
Posted in Kiama News, What Happened in Kiama This Week on June 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Heritage Walk around Kiama is now in place.
The theme of the nine signs is ‘The Role of Quarrying Basalt to the Development of Kiama’.
The locations are;
1.The front of the Pilots cottage,
2. The blowhole (first sighted by George Bass),
3. The old Infants school in Minnamurra Street, ( now Kiama Blue hotel),
4. Halfway down the path in [...]
