The aim of this site is to give some history on shearing in the central wheatbelt area of Western Australia from the 1950's onwards.
In the mid 1950's, a shearer was paid approximately twelve pounds for shearing one hundred sheep. This was considered good money in those days. My brother Ron Goddard and John Kuhne had a shearing circuit in the Merredin area, and carried their own plant on the back of their ute. The farmer's wife provided all meals and morning and afternoon teas. Both men won various shearing competitions at country shows in the 1950's, 1960's and 1970's.
Ron at the Royal sydney Easter Show shearing competition in late 1960.
To see the first section of a flash movie, of a shearing competition at Royal Perth Show somewhere in the late 1970's
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To see the whole flash movie, of the shearing competition
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To see shearing in a shearing shed at South Burracoppin on 14th July 2009
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