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An array of New Zealand full wool and lamb shearing titles will be at stake in the biggest weekend of shearing sports competition this summer. Six one-day...

An array of New Zealand fullwool and lambshearing titles will be at stake in the biggest weekend of shearing sports competition this summer. Six one-day shows – a tenth of all competitions on the Shearing Sports New Zealand calendar – will ...

The Wairoa A and P Shears in a woolshed northwest of Wairoa in 2020. With Cyclone Gabrielle having left long-lasting damage at the town's showgrounds, this year'd shearing championships are also being nheld in a farm woolshed, the third time the ...

Passion for shearing started early for young shepherd 18 Jan, 2021 12:00 AM 2 minutes to read Melissa Hamilton tightens her shearing hand piece before the start of the competition at the 39th Northern Southland Community Shears. Photo / Sandy Eggleston Melissa Hamilton tightens her shearing hand piece before the start of the competition at the 39th Northern Southland Community Shears. Photo / Sandy Eggleston Otago Daily Times By: Luisa Girao A fascination watching shearers as a child has drawn ...

The MetService forecasted the day to reach 26 degrees Celsius in Lumsden. Intermediate competitor Jimmy Napier has been shearing for three years, starting out in juniors, and said it was his mates that encouraged him to take part in competitive shearing. Damian Rowe/Stuff Shearer Troy Shirley, who took part in the 2021 Northern Southland shears, has come back into the shearing industry after a three-year hiatus. Napier also has a competitive nature in shearing shed anyway which helps him enj...

Sunday, 10 January 2021, 6:09 am The Open shearing final lineup at the Peninsula Duvauchelle Shears on Saturday. Photo / Supplied National 2019-2020 No 1-ranked Open shearer and New Zealand transtasman shearing series team member Troy Pyper got his second win of the current season in a close result at the Peninsula Duvauchelle Shears yesterday(Saturday). From Southland, now based in North Canterbury and just back from shearing in Hawke’s Bay, he won the the title at the Duvauchelle A and P S...

Robyn Edie/Stuff Inside the Selbie’s shed where the Northern Southland Community Shears takes place. If contractors were behind on their own shearing they would need to catch up, so Megan understood their dilemma. However, add border closures keeping the regular British and Irish shearers away and the full wool ewe competition on January 15 faced issues. The event usually attracted 60 wool handlers and 90 shearers, but most sign up the day before. Just more than a week out, half-a-dozen h...