A WHOLE DAY
TO SHEAR ONE SHEEP
EFFORTS OF FOUR MKN"
(lisborne holds the rccord for fast sheep shearing with more than -100 in a nine-hour daj'. A soldier in a private camp in Germany tells of what must lie the world's record lor slow-motion shearing. Private A. Mulligan, ol lokomaru Bay, who lias been a prisoner of war since the campaign in Greece, tells the story in a letter to his mother. "There is a country hostel just down I'roni our camp, and. the chap who runs it owns a fair bit ol land," the letter states. "Our guards have their meals there. He must ha\e asked the. corporal if any of us knew how to shear, because the corporal asked me. and I said I knew a bit about it. Then he said tliey had four sheep down there. 1 think it. is the first time they have seen a sheep shorn properly. It took me about an hour and. a half with a blade slieai. whereas last year,, they said, it took
lour of them a whole day to do one."'
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 6, 14 September 1943, Page 6
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184A WHOLE DAY Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 6, 14 September 1943, Page 6
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