Golden Shears

Date: 1900 - 1969

Reference: Eph-B-SHEARING-1900/1969

Description: Includes: 1910: Levin and Company Ltd. Lister sheep-shearing machine. Illustrated catalogue no 6. All previous lists cancelled. [1909-1910]. 1935: Cooper Engineering Company (NZ) Ltd. Cooper combs, Cooper cutters [ca 1935]. Flyer Cooper Engineering Co. This E-B handpiece cuts shearing costs [ca 1935]. Flyer Cooper Engineering Coy (NZ) Ltd. Estimate for Cooper Master model friction gear sheep shearing plant. 1 July 1935. Flyer 1963: International Shearing Championship Society. Golden Shears Royal Invitation Shearing Carnival in honour of the visit of Her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh. Fraser Park Lower Hutt, 11 February 1963. Programme 1966: International Shearing Championship Society. Golden Shears international shearing championships. War Memorial Stadium Masterton, 2-5 March 1966. Programme 1968: International Shearing Championship Society. Golden Shears international shearing championships. War Memorial Stadium Masterton, 27 February - 2 March 1968. Programme Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Flyers and booklets, sizes varying up to 330 mm. Processing information: Combined into ATL-Group-00753, November 2022; 1961: International Shearing Championship Society. Golden Shears international shearing and wool handling championships. War Memorial Stadium Masterton, 9-11 March 1961. Programme.

Date: 1970 - 1999

Reference: Eph-B-SHEARING-1970/1999

Description: Includes: 1971: Golden Shears International Shearing Championship Society. International Shearing Championships. War Memorial Stadium Masterton, 3-6 March 1971. Programme 1980?: Lister, for th world's best wool, the world's best shearing gear. Tested and approved by the New Zealand Wool Board Field Service. Flyer 1983: NZ Golden Fleece Fine Wool Shearing Society. NZ Fine Wool Shearing Championship. Stage 1 National. Alexandra Community Centre Theatre, Miss Wool of Otago. 16-17 September 1983. Souvenir programme 1985: Golden Shears International Shearing Championship Society championships. War Memorial Stadium, Masterton, 27 February - 2 March 1985. Programme 1993: 1993 World & New Zealand Fine Wool Championships. Alexandra 10-11 September [1993]. Programme Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Flyers and booklets, sizes varying up to 330 mm.

Date: [ca 1 Mar 1997]

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Simcox, Craig, active 1983

Reference: EP/1997/0587-F

Description: Ivan Bowen at the Golden Shears shearing competiton in Masterton, Wairarapa. Photographs taken circa 1 March 1997 by Evening Post staff photographer Craig Simcox. Bowen won the Golden Shears in 1961. Quantity: 2 colour original negative(s) strips with 6 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler negatives, 35mm

Date: 1955-1971

By: Hill, Morris James, 1929-2002

Reference: PA-Group-00375

Description: Wellington, openings of Parliament, politicians, Governors General, show personalities, Antarctic teams, police, army, visiting diplomats and heads of state, ship visits, memorials, RNZAF, fighter planes and fighter plane training, rugby and rugby players and selectors, film censorship, conferences, agricultural air shows, artists, royalty, manufacturing industries, models and fashion parades, New Zealand Players, etc Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 35mm-18037 to 18703, 120-0881 to 0959, 1/4-071736 to 072044, 1/2-177020 to 177461. Quantity: 1483 b&w original negative(s) 78 120 strips comprising 158 images, 666 35mm strips comprising 1,976 images, 308 1/4 plate negs, 441 1/2 plate negs. Total images 2,883. Finding Aids: Library generated negative registers provide a good access point to this collection. The negatives are listed within subject groupings.. Processing information: Originally arranged and described in 1995. Reference number changed from PAColl-4814 to PA-Group-00375 in 2009.

Date: 1962

From: Lonsdale, Neil, 1907-1989 :200 original cartoons by Neil Lonsdale from 1955 to 1962.

Reference: A-309-014

Description: Shows a group of men standing outside a shearing shed. One of them has had all his hair shaved off and is pointing inside the shed where the `Golden Shears' shearing competition is being held. Refers to the 1962 `Golden Shears' shearing competition in Masterton. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service..

Date: ca 25 Feb 1984

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1984/0918-F

Description: The Australian shearing team which was to compete against the New Zealand team at the Golden Shears in Masterton in 1984. From left: Bob Websdale (captain) from Victoria; Gene Mills from New South Wales; David Ryan and Neil Lett, both from Victoria. Photographs taken in the Wairarapa by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer circa 25 February 1984. Original caption reads: "The Australian shearing team...was in the Wairarapa this week putting in some practice time on farms..." ...." (Evening Post, 25 February 1984) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: ca1915-1961

From: Te Whaiti family : Collection

By: Golden Shears International Shearing Championship Society

Reference: MS-Papers-12777-11

Description: Folder made up of ephemera relating to the wool industry and wool sales, circa 1915. Comprises: - Lists of bales of wool, and bale marks, from the ships Delphic, Athenic, Makarini, Rotorua, Star of Australia, Indrabarah, Mimiro, Wakatane, Waimana, Anglo-Brazilian, Mottisfont, Star of Scotland, Ruapehu, possibly circa 1915. Wool stores include Back Church Lane 59 to 62 and1 St George Street 11 to 14. - Levin & Co. Limited. No. 3 priced catalogue of 5340 bales of wool. 26 January 1915. - Levin & Co. Limited. No. 2 priced catalogue of 5850 bales of wool. 10 December 1915. - 'Golden Shears: International Shearing and Wool Handling Championships', 1961, programme. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Processing information: Combined into ATL-Group-00753: Previous reference: Eph-B-WOOL-1915. Previous title: [Ephemera relating to the wool industry and wool sales. ca 1915]. One piece incorporated from Eph-B-SHEARING-1900/1969.

Date: 1963-1966

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs : An Encyclopedia of New Zealand - Sports and Pastimes Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-2000-15

Description: Includes files on rugby league football, shearing, skiing, small-bore rifle shooting, soccer, softball, spearfishing (or underwater fishing), speedboat racing, speedway motor cycle racing, speleology, sphairee, sports for the deaf, sports for the disabled Quantity: 1 folder(s).