He grew up on a wheat and sheep farm and became a wool classer when he left school. |
The wool classer instructs and supervises the pickers-up as far as concerns their duty in picking up the fleeces. |
Three local shearers will be in action and a professional mohair classer will inform people of the grades and differences in quality of mohair. |
He was at various times a wool classer, a bar clerk, and a station hand, but he was always a proud trade unionist. |
He later travelled the shearing sheds of Australia as a wool classer. |
Before establishing himself as a popular country and western singer, he worked country New South Wales as a wool classer. |