TO CORRESPONDENTS.
INQUIRER.—A shearer is sa:d to have shorn 678 sheep in a day with a machine, but apparently this has not been authenticated. There is no blade shearing in the big sheds now, so you would have to go back some years for records. The usual working time is eight hours.
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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 250, 21 October 1924, Page 7
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