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A WOOL CLASSING STORY Interviewed by Belle Brown in 1986 on behalf of the Ongerup-Needilup Museum. Note: Oral History recording..a few small edits, otherwise all is exactly as Mrs Rout told the story. I’ll tell you a funny experience. We had this gun wool classer… he used to come to Borden and my husband had never had much to do with classing wool or working with sheep, so he thought that if you could get into the shed where the Simpson was working, he’d know how to class wool. Well I used to be terrified being left by myself, with only the kids. |
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Anyway, he said “I’ll tell you what I’ll do,” he said, “If you let me go up to the McLennan’s where his fellow is going to be,” he said, “Any money I get I’ll divide between you and the kiddies”. Well, that made the kid’s mind up and they wanted him to go so he went and they start at started on Friday morning and they finished the lambs by Saturday dinner time. He came home and used to sit and you’d see him thinking – Simpson had made the lambs wool all one class. But how he got it that way he couldn’t make out and he said: “That was the lambs gone”. Anyway he went back on Monday morning. Alec McLennan came to him and he said: “Simpson can’t come…..his brother has taken seriously ill and he’s had to take him through to Perth”, he said. “Will you? I can get a native to do what you were doing” (That was just picking up the wool and sweeping the floor and that). He said: “Will you do the wool classing?” And Pop said: “Oh well, I wouldn’t see you stuck”. So he did it - anyway some weeks later were up in Borden and Alec McLennan had a paper or a letter or something in his hand and he said: “Arthur! Arthur!” Yelling at the top of his voice. “I want you to class my wool again next year”, he said, “I got threepence a pound more when you classed them than Simpson!"
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