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    Vincent Aspey

    When nine-year-old Vincent Aspey persuaded his mother to buy a violin he had spotted in a second-hand shop she was dubious that he would practice, let alone come to be described as ‘synonymous with orchestral development in New Zealand’.

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First Golden Shears competition

1961 First Golden Shears competition

First held at the Masterton War Memorial Stadium in 1961, the Golden Shears competition has become an icon of the shearing and wool-handling industry in New Zealand. more...

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1961 - key eventsGodfrey Bowen

External links

  • The worlds greatest shearing competition (Golden shears)
  • David Fagan (NZ Listener)
  • Golden Shears competition (1966 encyclopaedia)
  • Godfrey Bowen biography (DNZB)
  • First Golden Shears (Te Ara)
  • Shearing (Te Ara)
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