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SHEARING IN HAWKES BAY; Leadership in Shearing; Cowards Modern Conditions; First Wellington Award - (Te Ao Hou - No. 19 August 1957)
- Date
- August 1957
- By
- Maori Affairs DepartmentMaori Affairs Department
- Publisher
- Te Ao Hou
- Description
The greatest shearer of Mr Tutaki's youth was Raihania who with the narrow cut machine used in that period could shear as many as 343 sheep a day. He died, unbeaten, about 1924 at the age of fifty-six. Machine shearing was introduced in 1898, the first machine having only ten teeth. At about 1910 the modern wide-cut machine of 13 teeth first appear...
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- Source
- Te Ao Hou - No. 19 (August 1957)
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