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NSW Town Famed for Merino Wool

NSW town famed for merino wool crossword clue in Daily Telegraph Sydney newspaper on 5 Oct 2017. 4 letters.



Answer: YASS

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One of Australia's best-known poets, A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson arrived in the district in 1871 aged 7, passed his childhood in the district and later bought a property in the Wee Jasper area so that his children could experience country life. Poet and priest Patrick Hartigan (pen name: John O'Brien) was born near Yass in 1878 and he studied at the local convent school as a youth. Sir Walter Merriman established 'Merryville' one of the country's most famous sheep studs and arguably its leading fine-wool establishment in 1903. Yass,  NSW town famed for merino wool, is a prominent area for raising sheep which produce very fine wool due to the soil and climatic conditions of the Yass area.

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