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Kōrero: Shearing

Whārangi 5. Hononga, rauemi nō waho

Ētahi atu tūhononga, pae tukutuku hoki

  • Godfrey
    Bowen

    This page on the New Zealand Edge website is a
    biography of celebrated shearer Walter Godfrey
    Bowen.

  • Shearing technique

    This 1958 short film, on the NZ On Screen website, demonstrates the legendary Bowen technique.

  • The
    Golden Shears

    The website of the Golden Shears shearing and
    wool-handling competition.

Ētahi whakaaro puaki, takenga

  • Martin, John E. The forgotten worker: the
    rural wage earner in nineteenth-century New
    Zealand
    . Wellington: Allen & Unwin, Trade
    Union History Project, 1990.
  • McLauchlan, Gordon. The farming of New
    Zealand: the people and the land
    . Auckland:
    Penguin, 2006.
  • Mills, A. R. Sheep-o!: the story of the
    world’s fastest shearers
    . Wellington: Reed,
    1960.
  • Ogonowska-Coates, Halina. Boards, blades and
    barebellies
    . Auckland: Benton Ross, 1987.
  • Williams, Des. Top class wool cutters: the
    world of shearers and shearing
    . Hamilton:
    Shearing Heritage Publications, 1996.
Ki mua Whai muri: Ngā whakaahua, ngā rauemi katoa Whai muri

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Des Williams, Shearing, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/story/1306/sources (accessed 13 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Des Williams, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.