Shearing Gangs Begin Runs Yesterday saw the departure from Matiutuke of the first batch of shearers and their gangs for their respective rims. Bv the end of the month almost three-quarters of the people of the district will be out shearing. The continuous fine weather has enabled them to plant their crops before going cut, leaving the womenfolk to do the in the shearing season a break in the shearing routine or a n n • •• * v -nther ■ ' ll be necessary to nable them to plant their kumara crops.—Special.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19757, 11 October 1938, Page 2
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