Girl In Man’s World
(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, February 15.
Miss Pamela Herlihy, aged 19, of Awakino, forced tough male ■hearers of seasoned stamina to show their best form at the opening of the Franklin show at Pukekohe today. A small, quietly-spoken brunette, Miss Herlihy became a shearer about a year sgo when she became bored with being merely a shed hand. She is the daughter of an Awakino farmer, Mr D. J. Herlihy, and has been shearing around her own district this season with a gang ran by the lamb-shearing champion, Mr Colin Bosher.
Miss Herlihy treats her entry into a masculine field as a matter of fact, but she has already acquired enough skill and stamina to shear 162 ewes and lambs in a nine-hour day.
Miss Herlihy came to Pukekohe fresh from a third place triumph at the Taumarunui show. She did even better today to gain a second in the class for shearers who have not shorn more than 180 In a nine-hour day, and this in spite of the fact that she still has to wear a leather strap on the wrist she broke al Christmas.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30058, 16 February 1963, Page 2
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