Shortage of quarantine spaces puts the brakes on shearing plans
14 Jan, 2021 10:17 PM
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Welsh lads unleashed in Hawke s Bay - Rhidian Edwards (left) and Meirion Evans in a break at Tarawera Station. Photo / Warren Buckland
Welsh lads unleashed in Hawke s Bay - Rhidian Edwards (left) and Meirion Evans in a break at Tarawera Station. Photo / Warren Buckland
Doug Laing is a senior reporter for Hawke s Bay Todaydoug.laing@nzme.co.nzHawkesBayToday A young Welsh shearer s patience travelling halfway around the world to work and spending Christmas and New Year s Eve in quarantine has been rewarded with a personal-best just days into the job and shearing almost
Hawke s Bay Magpies line up possible first Ranfurly Shield defence of 2021
12 Jan, 2021 08:04 PM
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The joy of victory over Wellington, in the final Ranfurly Shield defence of the season, at McLean Park, Napier in November. Photo / Ian Cooper.
The joy of victory over Wellington, in the final Ranfurly Shield defence of the season, at McLean Park, Napier in November. Photo / Ian Cooper.
Doug Laing is a senior reporter for Hawke s Bay Todaydoug.laing@nzme.co.nzHawkesBayToday National Heartland division rugby champions North Otago are not letting the prospect of a good old-fashioned hiding discourage them from again tackling the Ranfurly Shield dream as they line up as possibly one of Hawke s
Shear guts: Shearer puts in marathon effort to help injured mate
23 Dec, 2020 01:00 AM
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Ariki Hawkins shears in the middle of the night to his tally of 1052. Photo / Doug Laing
Hawkes Bay Today
It was a deserved a beer for Hawke s Bay shearer Ariki Hawkins, even if it was 6am on Wednesday morning.
It had been the biggest day and night of his shearing career.
On Wednesday, Hawkins completed two-standard eight-hour woolshed days back-to-back, starting at 7am on Tuesday and finishing at 3.45am on Wednesday after running out of sheep.
He broke some personal records along the way, shearing 500 in a day for the first time with a 7am-5pm tally of 585, shearing 1000 lambs two hours ahead of time and finishing with 1052 lambs in 14hrs 45mins.
Hawke s Bay s Ariki Hawkins shearing 1000 sheep for an injured mate
19 Dec, 2020 10:03 PM
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Hawkes Bay Today
By: Doug Laing
A Hawke s Bay shearer is packing two days shearing into one to support a record-breaking shearing mate who was badly hurt in a quadbike accident in Southland seven weeks ago.
Raised in West Australia, from a Mohaka family, now living at Tangoio and working for Napier contractor Brendan Mahony, 36-year-old Ariki Hawkins plans to shear more than 1000 lambs at the Lee family property on Waipunga Rd, between Napier and Taupō on Tuesday, and a bit of Wednesday.
He will start at 7pm on Tuesday and finish at 5am on Wednesday, which with the regulated breaks and two-hour on Tuesday evening for tea …and a bit of a rest, it will be the equivalent of two eight-hour days back-to-back.