Leon Samuels News Today

Today on The Country radio show , host Jamie Mackay spoke to Opposition Leader Chris Hipkins, about his change of heart about a capital gains tax . On with...

The TAB has opened betting on three major events at the New Zealand Shears in Te Kuiti, including a new points-margin option for the Wools of New Zealand Shearing series test match to be shorn tonight between New Zealand and Wales. Betting is available ...

Reigning Golden Shears open shearing champion Rowland Smith has withdrawn from this year’s event because of injury. The near two-metres-tall 37-year-old Hawke’s Bay shearer and eight-times Golden Shears Open winner, and 2014 World Champion, announced ...

A Bay of Plenty election candidate who poured about $27,000 into his campaign and won 204 votes – roughly $132 per vote – says he has no regrets. Independent...

A Wyndham shearer was pleased just to make the Southern Shears finals, but then he found out he had won the title. Nathan Bee, of Wyndham, beat a...

A stroppy sheep put paid to a Gore shearer’s chances of an intermediate title at the Southern Shears. Emma Martin, the only female shearer to make...

New Zealand has a new top woolhandler, after Alexandra woman Pagan Rimene toppled long-standing champion Joel Henare on Saturday. Rimene was among...

A close race is developing for the top 12 places in the PGG Wrightson Vetmed National Shearing Circuit semi-finals. Just five points are separating nine...

Most the seven members of the new New Zealand transtasman shearing and woolhandling team are expected to be in action at the Waimate Spring Shears today and tomorrow. Selection of the team was completed last weekend when the Shearing Sports New Zealand ...

Central Otago shearer Leon Samuels has added another national title to his impressive resume. The New Zealand Merino Shearing and Woolhandling...