It concerned the death of one of Nowra's best-known citizens, Oswald Sullivan at the age of 61.

Sullivan had been knocked down by a motor lorry in Junction Street at around 6pm on Tuesday, July 24, and died later at the Coast Hospital in Sydney.

The accident happened as he was walking from work towards his Osborne Street home with his daughter Dorothy. It was very dark, although the earlier rain had reduced to a drizzle.

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The father and daughter were chatting about Australia's chances in the Test match at Headingley, which was about to enter its last day after Bradman had scored a magnificent 304.

They had walked along the asphalt near the Methodist Church, but when they reached the gateway they found the footpath to be impassable.

While Dorothy walked along the kerb in the gutter, he father was alongside her on the edge of the road.

He was a little hard of hearing, but apparently neither of them heard the lorry before it struck Sullivan from behind.

As the vehicle stopped, several people were quickly on the scene including bank manager William Calcraft, and Dorothy rushed to the nearby Morison family home, Hillcrest, to phone Dr Frank Ryan.

Although there were some street lamps and another on the fire station, the lorry driver said that he had not seen Sullivan before he had struck him.

It was a tragedy for the close-knit family, and a loss for several community organisations.

Oswald Albert Sullivan was born in 1873 at Richmond on the Hawkesbury River, and was a young man when he arrived at Nowra and started work at Woodhills' Berry Street store.

Both families had come from the Richmond district, and it can be speculated that Sullivan was a friend of the Woodhill brothers who played a leading role in their father's Nowra business.

Sullivan certainly worked closely with Charles Woodhill on the cricketing front, both playing with Nowra in competitions and Half Holiday socially, while the pair filled the positions of association president and secretary simultaneously just prior to WW1.

Sullivan was perhaps the more committed for he had three years as secretary and a similar period as president, and even when voted out, he continued as vice-president for the rest of his life.

He was also heavily involved in the formation of the Nowra Bowling Club, serving as its secretary for a decade.

His efforts in that club were appreciated, and at the annual meeting in July 1929 he was presented with a gold wristlet watch inscribed "To O.A Sullivan in appreciation of services as honorary secretary, Nowra Bowling Club,1929."

It was not his first impressive presentation, for he had previously been honoured by the cricket association with a medallion.

While the image of a cricketer was engraved on one side, there was an inscription on the reverse, "Presented to O.A Sullivan, in appreciation of services rendered, SDCA 1913."

His obituary started that he had been "a trusted employee of Woodhills Ltd for well on towards forty years", but this spell was interrupted by a short spell at Chatswood at the start of WW1.

He also started his own business in Junction Street in April 1931 and continued there until his death.

All information provided by Shoalhaven Historical Society.