Pahiatua Shears celebrates 50th jubilee this month
18 Feb, 2021 07:52 PM
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Bush Telegraph
By: Steve Carle
Pic: BTG080310JackFagan Caption: Jack Fagan, a chip off the old block, at Pahiatua Shears in 2010.
Pic: BTG220221SHEARS3 Caption: Balfour was the venue the Pahiatua Shears for many years, seen in its heydays.
By Steve Carle
Pahiatua Shears will be having its 50th shearing competition on the last Sunday of this month on February 28.
Gordon (Flash) Duxfield is the chairman/convener.
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Founding committee member Philip Morrison has not missed a competition in the last 49 years.
Foundation committee members: Dave Wolland with a Golden Lister shearing hand-piece with a Predator comb he used while shearing in England with Philip Morrison holding a Pahiatua Shears ribbon in Pahiatua.