An honest day’s work turned into a 53-year career for Hawkes Bay shearing contractor Brendan Mahony. He was recently made a life member of the NZ Shearing Contractors Association and shared his reflections with Farmstrong.
Life Members
The career of Ron Davis in the wool industry started with a phone call from his older brother Len, who had left their Coromandel home a couple of years earlier to work for George Potae at Milton.
In all of Golden Shears history, only seven shearers have won titles in lower grades and gone on to appear in the open final. And only one of those – Brian Quinn (senior champ in 1962) has actually won the open.
Long-serving Southland shearing contractors Elbert and Margaret de Koning were accorded life membership of the New Zealand Shearing Contractors’ Association at Palmerston North this week.