A dozen Northeast Georgia-area teams in the Georgia High School Association, GIAA, and GAPPS will get their quests for state titles under way this weekend.
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
Rural Games: Fastest shearers in the land, you bet!
12 Mar, 2021 01:30 AM
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The Country
Shearing takes another step forward with the TAB s punt on a speed shear at the Ford Ranger New Zealand Rural Games in Palmerston North this weekend.
The TAB will be taking bets from account holders on the winner of the New Zealand Speed Shearing Championships on Sunday – the last day of the three-day Rural Games in the Palmerston North square, Te Marae o Hine.
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The event will match 10 shearers, chosen for their commitment to both speed shear events and show competitions throughout the country, Shearing Sports New Zealand chairman and King Country shearing legend Sir David Fagan said.