On this day in 1995 the streets of Goulburn were filled with sheep for the second annual Woolfest.
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With 400 sheep were scheduled to walk down the main street as part of Woolfest 95's Street Parade today, the town may have looked overrun.
In its second year, Woolfest 95 has drawn hundreds of people to the region to see events as refined as the Elders Australian Wool Fashion Awards and as unrefined as a human sheep round-up, which took place on this day 25 years ago.
The week-long wool celebration heralds a path back to prosperity, according to Goulburn mayor Margaret O'Neill.
Also on The Canberra Times' front page in 1995, Westpac gave the Federal Government a 0.35 percentage point cut in its variable mortgage rate.
