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The initiative has helped many families within the Lee County School System.

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...

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...