Oamaru Shearer Wins Masterton Title

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31000, 4 March 1966, Page 14

Oamaru Shearer Wins Masterton Title

(New Zealand Press Association)

MASTERTON, Mar. 3. The Oamaru shearer C. Gibson scored a double victory tonight when he won the junior title of the 1966 Masterton golden shears and also had top shearing points in the final. He was the fourth to finish his five competition sheep—in 13min 57.2 sec—and scored 85.594 points. The runner up was G. Clearwater, of Kelso, with 84.607 points. He was third to finish, 18.6 sec ahead of Gibson. The fastest finalist was D. Carrick, of Feilding, who took 12 min 22.45ec to complete the five sheep. A crowd of about 1300 saw 42 sheep shorn in eight min-

utes by six past champions ■ tonight. After jockeying with ' K. B. McDonald, of Frankton, ■ and B. Waterson, of Kaukai pakapa. B. Quinn, of AlexanI dra, finished with an eight- : second margin from McDon- > aid, with Waterson one second i later third. Quinn shore seven ■ sheep in 6min 54.65ec. Intermediate finalists to ■ shear in their final tomorrow ' night, with points from to- • night’s semi-finals, are V. Bar- • ber, Wellington, 87.25 points, T. Edmonds, Eketahuna, i 86.484, R. Pringle, Oamaru, ■ 86.245, D. P. Grant, Oamaru, 86.07, B. Heberley Taihape, ' 85.063, L. Duckett, Masterton, ■ 85.555.