MR W. GODFREY BOWEN

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27641, 23 April 1955, Page 10

MR W. GODFREY BOWEN

NEW ZEALAND WOOL BOARD SHEARING INSTRUCTOR. The New Zealand Wool Board appointed Mr W. Godfrey Bowen, Wool Board Shearing Instructor because they had been immensely impressed with Mr Bowen’s outstanding ability as an Instructor, and also with the highly efficient technique which he had evolved. The Wool Board gives no recognition to speeed shearing as such and is concerned only with quality work. Mr Bowen possesses a combination of qualities and qualifications as a shearing instructor which are probably unique; his technique, and his remarkable ability to impart it to others were widely and generally recognised by wool growers in many parts of New Zealand long before Mr Bowen joined the staff of the Board. Mr Bowen’s technique, and the Board’s desire to improve the quality of shearing generally and to interest wool producers in the active recruitment of young men to the shearing industry, have been vividly demonstrated to audiences of farmers and the public, whose total is conservatively estimated at 300,000. The extent to which the shearing service’s appearances had caught the public imagination was strikingly shown when Her Majesty the Queen requested that Mr Bowen give a “command performance” before the Duke of Edinburgh and herself at Napier, during the Royal Tour in January, 1954. Mr Bowen had given an earlier demonstration before the Queen at Hamilton and had so impressed her that she particularly wanted the Duke, who was not witn her on that occasion, to see Mr Bowen shear.

Mr W. Godfrey Bowen will be demonstrating on Wednesday, 27th, Thursday, 28th, and Friday, 29th April, at 11.30 a.m. in the Car Park of the N.Z. Farmers’ Co-op. Assn. Ltd., Madras street. —Advt