Final week: Congratulations to June McKenzie of Fisher who was the primary to determine final week’s picture because the Yass Dam. June simply beat a flood of different readers to the prize together with Jason Klose of Waramanga. The clue of ‘operating water’ associated to the identify of the city which is believed to be derived from the Aboriginal phrase yharr, which means operating water. Within the laborious copy of this column, final week’s competitors was erroneously titled ‘The place in Canberra‘, and several other eagle-eyed readers together with Roger Shelton of Spence had been fast to level out that “Yass shouldn’t be in Canberra”. Level taken, though if the visitors on the Barton Freeway in peak hour is any indication, it is quick changing into a satellite tv for pc suburb. Do not fret, I can assure right now’s picture actually is from The Snowies, snapped final weekend after a giant snowfall.
