The Classer is the the most high ranking job in the shearing shed, basically deciding the quality of each fleece and grouping that quality together into the same bale. Joshua Sugden arrived in Melbourne from England in 1849 and was also an entrepreneur as well as sheep shooer. I liked the setting described in this book, with his businesses set in a triangle being Melbourne, Geelong and Ballarat. Geelong was the wool capital but I have not yet been to have a look at the wool museum. I have ridden many times along the Barwon and there is a low bridge I have crossed and right there is a tin shed labelled Sunnyside Sheep Scour which you would never know much about but now is getting millions in heritage restoration money for the equipment inside, dated from 1867.
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