The ShearersThe Shearers is a colourful account of the men and women, past and present, who have committed their lives to shearing in New Zealand. Their voices – in their own words, often brutally honest reflections on what it is to be a shearer – are at the heart of this book: their training, their tools, their camaraderie, and the gruelling, itinerant nature of the job. Old hands like Brian ‘Snow’ Quinn, Tony Dobbs and Peter Casserly, and Peter and Elsie Lyon, as well as those newer to the scene, offer personal insights, often for the first time. The Shearers invites readers to the world of the New Zealand shearer – ‘the only job where you take a sweat towel to work’. |
Contents
Sarah Higgins Catching the | |
Murray Grice An extra pair of hands | |
Their Work | |
Eddie Parkinson A shedshearing legend | |
Ian and Beth Kirkpatrick Making shearers for life | |
Richard Winiata Mahana | |
Ann Robinson The David Fagan of cooking | |
Their Guts and Glory | |
Reg Benjamin The sport where youre paid to practise | |
Bart and Nuku Hadfield A nice place to be | |
Brian Snow Quinn A competitive shearing legend | |
Epilogue | |
Their World | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Alistair Barry Bart beer blade shearer boys Brian Brian Kerr Canterbury Catherine comb competing competition cook Coronet Peak Corriedale couple crutching Dannevirke David Fagan didn’t Donny Hammond Elsie Ewen ewes farm farmers father fella finished fleece gear Golden Shears guys handpiece Hape hard hoggets hundred Ivan Johnny Kelly lambs laughs learning to shear look Māori Matawai merino Mount Nicholas never night North Island Nuku numbers o’clock Otairi Pākehā Pappy Parky Peter pre-lamb presser pretty probably remembers rouseabout rousie season second shear shearers shearing contractor shearing gang shearing industry shearing school shed sheep shore shorn smoko stand started stay-outs Taihape talk tally Taranaki Taumarunui there’s they’re things thought Tony took Waiorongomai watch whānau wool woolhandler woolshed yeah you’re young Zealand