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- A WELL-KNOWN DROVER.
"ERNIE" Dunstell is one of the colourful characters of the district and his activities as drover for Goldsbrough Mort, Ltd.have made him known over a wide area. Born 61 years ago in South Australia (he admits to being "broken mouthed").
Ernie has spent a life-time amongst sheep and cattle and knows his job from A to Z. With his tented cart and his dogs, he is a familiar figure on many roads. He has a widespread reputation as a trainer of dogs and sells a number of broken in dogs and pups in the course of his travels.
He breeds kelpies, Border collies, and kelpie-collie crosses, but personally favours the kelpies for his own particular work.It takes a dog that's as hard as nails to stand up to this job, especially in poison country he assured me and I wouldn't take £20 apiece for those two kelpies of mine, although I'm a poor man.
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