More links and websites
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Godfrey Bowen
This page on the New Zealand Edge website is a biography of celebrated shearer Walter Godfrey Bowen.
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Shearing technique
This 1958 short film, on the NZ On Screen website, demonstrates the legendary Bowen technique.
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The Golden Shears
The website of the Golden Shears shearing and wool-handling competition.
More suggestions and sources
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Martin, John E. The forgotten worker: the rural wage earner in nineteenth-century New Zealand. Wellington: Allen & Unwin, Trade Union History Project, 1990.
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McLauchlan, Gordon. The farming of New Zealand: the people and the land. Auckland: Penguin, 2006.
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Mills, A. R. Sheep-o!: the story of the world’s fastest shearers. Wellington: Reed, 1960.
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Ogonowska-Coates, Halina. Boards, blades and barebellies. Auckland: Benton Ross, 1987.
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Williams, Des. Top class wool cutters: the world of shearers and shearing. Hamilton: Shearing Heritage Publications, 1996.