Shearing Events Popular

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31837, 15 November 1968, Page 14

Shearing Events Popular

The shearing and I' woolhandling competi- 1 tions again drew a j( large crowd to Canter- i : bury Court yesterday. I There was also a shearing demonstration by the Wool I. Board’s director of h shearing and woolhandling services, Godfrey Bowen. The day began with the I shearing and woolhandling I contest for members of i young farmers’ clubs. The j

(winners were North Canter- ( bury in the senior section (and Timaru in the intermedi--1 ate. These two teams will now compete at the national (final of the competition at i Masterton next autumn. The senior competition was ivery close between the first j two teams, North Canterbury scoring 85.67, Timaru 84.80, (and the third team,Mid-Can-(terbury, 80.02. The winning team comj prised N. Hewitt, B. Thomp- | son, A. Harrison, and A. (Pickering. ( Timaru won the intermediate contest with 86.60 points. l

North Canterbury was more than 6 points back with 80.80, while Mid-Canterbury, with 76.67, scraped in for third, a fraction ahead of Christchurch, with 76.62. j Competitors in the young farmers’ section were allowed to shear two trial sheep before shearing eight competition sheep. Nine heats were run in the Canterbury machine shearing title, four contestants being selected to compete in the final at 2.45 p.m. today. Those who qualified for, the final were S. Ryan (Pleasant Point), R. Bishop (Ashburton), M. Irvine • Cheviot), and R. Summerfield (Rangiora). The fastest time of the dav was recorded by R. Millar, of I

Leeston, who sheared four hog gets in 5m in 45sec.

The time and points allocations for the four finalists were: Ryan. 5m in 47sec, 91.05 points; Bishop, smin 55sec, 90.50 points; Irvine. smin 52sec. 90.30 points; Summerfield, 6min 26sec. 88.15 points. Dyring the afternoon. Godfrey Bowen sheared 10 hoggets with L. Heeney (Rakaiai, G. Cartney (Ashburton), who won the contest last year, and Ryan. He was ahead of his three juniors until he had sheared the first four sheep, but he became restricted with cramp, and lost his advantage while shearing the last six.

The competitions will continue today with the national blade shearing championship, the final of the Canterbury machine championship and the (national junior blades contest.