SHEARING SKILL
Shed Training Sought
The meat and wool section executive of the North Can’erbury District of Federated Farmers has decided to press for shearing instructors to visit sheds while normal shearing is in progress. A motion accepting a remit to this effect from the Oxford branch was passed at a meeting of the executive yesterday. Mr R. Oliver (Hororata) said the help given by instructors during shearing in his district had contributed tremendously to the amount and quality of shearing. It had improved the standard and encouraged shearers. He said it cost a shearer money to take a week off to attend a course at Lincoln College. It was generally more acceptable for them to receive training in the sheds. Mr R. J. MiHar (Ellesmere) said apprentices had to make sacrifices to learn a trade and shearers should be prepared to do likewise.
“In any case, it is more shearers we want. They are fast enough now," he said.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30803, 15 July 1965, Page 10
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