Breadth of Merino rams

By Stephen Burns
Updated June 22 2018 - 9:03am, first published 4:30am
The Shilling ram - Uardry 0.1, grand champion at 1932 Sydney Sheep Show, later immortalised on the shilling, first struck in 1938. (Charles Mills (Uardry) Pty Ltd)
The Shilling ram - Uardry 0.1, grand champion at 1932 Sydney Sheep Show, later immortalised on the shilling, first struck in 1938. (Charles Mills (Uardry) Pty Ltd)

It was never envisaged by the English government in 1788 that the penal colony at Port Jackson would be anything other than a self-sustained depository of the overflow of convicts held in English gaols.

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