Friday, 9 April 2021, 3:57 pm
New
New Zealand Shears Novice champion Sean Fagan (left),
grandfather and inaugural 198 championships Open final
winner John Fagan (centre), and Sean s dad, John s son Neil.
Photo / SSNZ
The shearing sports
have saluted the emergence of the next generation of Fagan
champions with a win by 16-year-old Sean Fagan in the Novice
shearing final on the second day of the New Zealand Shears
in hometown Te Kuiti today.
On hand to witness the
achievement in Te Kuiti’s Les Munro Centre was grandfather
John Fagan who won the shears’ first Open final when the
event was established as the King Country Shears in 1985, a
Wednesday, 7 April 2021, 12:31 pm
Organisers of the New Zealand Shears are breathing a sigh
of relief as they bounce-back from the cancellation of last
year’s event to stage the 2021 championships starting in
Te Kuiti tomorrow(Thursday).
More than 200 shearers
and woolhandlers will compete in the three-day
championships, which 12 months ago became one of the early
casualties of the 2021 Covid-19 Level 4 lockdown –
called-off for the first time since the New Zealand
championships were resurrected initially as the new King
Country Shears in 1985.
While a Level 2 alert which
cancelled this year’s Golden Shears in Masterton at just
four days’ notice a month ago sent shivers up the spines