Australian Working Stock Dog Magazine - June 2018

driving and share farming. He even moved to the big smoke

(Melbourne) for a time; working as a TA in Engineering In-

stallation; where he learnt to weld and became a general hand.

Arthur could turn his hand to anything; whatever that was

asked of him, he would ind a way of doing. During these

years Arthur also married, and welcomed the arrival of 8

children. His family was almost fully-grown (and he was di-

vorced) when he joined Bonnie on the Bi- Centennial horse

ride from Melbourne to Canberra. Arthur’s job was to drive

the trucks and set up the yards for the riders. A group of 360

riders started out, but in the end only 28 riders and their hors-

es made it to Canberra, including Bonnie and her horse Lindy.

Arthur and Bonnie married at Whittlesea in 1989, and pri-

or to their leaving Victoria (to care-take a NSW cattle sta-

tion), Bonnie bought a tri-coloured bitch Border Collie.

his dog would soon play a big part in their lives together.

It was when they moved to a care-takers job at Turkey Hill in

Queensland, that Arthur irst learned of the Queensland cat-

tle dog trials. Making some enquiries, he then entered with

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ARTHUR TREWIN

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rthur was born at Sale, Victoria on the 5th of March

1941; the youngest of a family of eight, seven boys and

one girl. Arthur’s father was in farming and moved

from farm to farm, with Arthur attending 13 or 14 diferent

schools all over the Gippsland and Bendigo areas of Victoria,

during his childhood.

From the tender age of 13 years, Arthur le school and be-

gan his working life, irstly working at a poultry farm. He then

found work with Albert Nash who had a contract to build rain

water tanks for the Soldiers Settlement Commission. hey ate,

worked and slept in diferent sheds throughout Victoria.

At the age of 17 Arthur got a job on a sheep and cattle station

70 miles north of Balranald, and it was at this time that his fa-

ther gave him his irst Border Collie x Kelpie dog. He worked

on the station for four years.

Arthur went on to work a variety of jobs over the years, from

slaughtering and meat delivery, to a 7-mile milk run (with

draught horse Rass), to pig fattening and selling (as he recov-

ered from a serious back injury and surgery), bus driving, truck

Tribute to Arthur Trewin, Trewina Working Border Collies Prepared by Joanne Bray;

based on Arthur’s self-written eulogy.

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