Bathurst (Australia)
BATHURST
State : New South Wales
Official blazon
Origin/meaning
The arms were granted on September 6, 1960.
As the first payable gold in Australia was found at Ophir near Bathurst in 1851 a great influx of miners came to search for gold and later settled on the land, represented by the Miner with a shovel and a Husbandman with a sickle. The area round Bathurst was very suitable for rearing Merino sheep and Hereford cattle (as well as growing cereals, fruits and vegetables).
The kangaroo and emu which previously abounded in the district were driven west. Bathurst later became a large railway town with extensive workshops. The crest is a railway wheel issuing from a coronet alternating wattle flowers and gold nuggets.
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