Mataura shearer Brett Roberts scored his first Open final win in over a year with victory at the Mayfield A and P Show in Mid-Canterbury on Saturday. Roberts, 30, hadn’t won since the national full wool championship final at the Northern Southland .
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Thursday, 8 April 2021, 6:39 pm
New Zealand Shearing Contractors Association president
Mark Barrowcliffe may be the top boss in the industry but
also runs a gang of some of the top up-and-coming talent as
was shown at on the opening day of the New Zealand Shears in
Te Kuiti today.
Staff of the Piopio-based enterprise
claimed the first two titles of the three-day championships,
the Junior woolhandling final won by Rahera Kerr, 31, from
Hauturu, and the Senior final by Azuredee Paku, 36, from
Masterton.
Both from inter-generational shearing
families, they were unofficial pre-post favourites as the
top-performers in their grades during the season.
Jack Fagan claims second Rural Games speed shear title
14 Mar, 2021 11:00 PM
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Jack Fagan (left) pips event favourite Jimmy Samuels to successfully defend the Rural Games speed shearing title in Palmerston North. Photo / SSNZ
Jack Fagan (left) pips event favourite Jimmy Samuels to successfully defend the Rural Games speed shearing title in Palmerston North. Photo / SSNZ
The Country
All roads, (or what seemed to be just about all of them), were paved with gold for Te Kuiti shearer Jack Fagan when he won the New Zealand Rural Games Speed Shear titles this weekend.
Fagan embarked on a rugged travel schedule, which started with a flight from Hamilton to Christchurch, followed by a 110km drive from Christchurch to the Mayfield A and P Show.
Travelling Jack claims second
Rural Games speed shear title
All roads, or what
seemed to be just about all of them, were paved with gold
for Te Kuiti shearer Jack Fagan as he today became the first
to win two New Zealand Rural Games Speed Shear
titles.
Successfully defending the title he won last
year, it was Fagan’s second speed shear win in a rugged
travel schedule which took him on a flight from Hamilton to
Christchurch a 110km drive from Christchurch to the Mayfield
A and P Show, and the 142km from Mayfield to Sefton on
Saturday, and the next morning the drive from Sefton to