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Shearer Rowland Smith shines on Wairoa's day in the sun 17 Jan, 2021 03:30 AM 2 minutes to read Rowland Smith completes 20 sheep in 16min 28sec, despite breaking a handpiece comb during Saturday's Wairoa A and P Open shearing final. Photo / Doug Laing Rowland Smith completes 20 sheep in 16min 28sec, despite breaking a handpiece comb during Saturday's Wairoa A and P Open shearing final. Photo / Doug Laing Hawkes Bay Today A shearing final win after breaking a hand piece comb tooth and replacing the hand piece provided a world class highlight at the Wairoa A and P show. Few noticed Hawke's B...

My newspaper career began as a correspondent then a reporter for The Berkshire Courier weekly in Great Barrington. Attending municipal meetings and taking notes on activities was interesting. I got to know elected officials and sometimes phoned for more information. But I didn’t like making cold phone calls. Or interviews. Shy from birth. Nevertheless, I questioned magicians and stamp collectors, cartoonists and auto mechanics, naturists and naturalists, museum curators and mystery writers. But Pulitzer Prize and Academy Award-winning composer Aaron Copland (1900-1990)? What would I ask ...