Shearing in China

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22439, 20 September 1947, Page 4

Shearing in China

Now back in New Zealand after supervising the UNRRA shipment of 1000 New" Zealand pedigree sheep to China, Mr. I-I. Sievewright, of the Department of Agriculture, said he reached Rewi Alley’s technical school in the midst of shearing operations, and so was able to instruct young shearers in the use of the shears presented 1o them by the Women’s Division of the New Zealand Federated Farmers at the time when 25 sheep given by New Zealand breeders were sent through CORSO to Mr. Alley. Mr. Sievewright added that he found the local shears “unbelievably clumsy weapons.” The previous method of shearing in China was to clip a side at a time m “apple parings” across the body from the tail up while the sheep lay on the ground with its legs tied together. Channels to Britain.

There are probably few people in this district who are unaware of the arrangement sponsored by the British Government through its High Commissioner in New Zealand for the freightfree forwarding of food to the Ministry of Food by private organisations in the Dominion. In view of the widespread publicity given to this food-supply channel, a "member of an East Coast organisation handling a large volume of food under the Ministry of Food arrangement was surprised recently to receive an inquiry from a Wellington source for details. The writer, who had noted a report of the successful efforts made on the East Coast, wanted the information for reference to fellowinembers of a committee on which lie is working in the capital city. The committee is one of the major instruments of the lielp-for-Bntam policy recently hammered out under the leadership of the country's foremost I uiliamentarians and industrialists*