Story: Shearing

More links and websites

• 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.

More suggestions and sources

• 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.