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little Wolseley electric-fence sign (pictured) caught my eye as I helped tidy up a local property. It interested me because I’ve long been aware that Dublin-born Frederick Wolseley had invented a successful mechanical sheepshearing machine here in the colonies as a young bloke in the pre-motor-car Victorian era. The Wolseley shearing-machine business he established in Australia ultimately gave birth to Wolseley Motors Limited in the UK. But a Wolseley electricfence was something new altogether…