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- W3014737589 abstract "Norm Blackwell was born in Auckland and spent his early childhood years on Great Barrier Island where his family farmed. Recalls moving to Auckland where he was educated at a number of schools. Mentions jobs in a wool store and on a sheep farm before shearing. Describes going shearing as a means of buying a farm, learning to shear and joining a shearing gang. Discusses shearing tallies. Talks about buying his first farm at the age of twenty one and getting married. Discusses continuing shearing while farming and having no family life. Discusses contract shearing and travelling, shed routine, shearing gear, teamwork, unions, being a teetotaller and hierarchies in the shed. Talks about shed hands and the seasonal nature of shearing and earnings. Discusses rivalry, jokes and injuries. Describes the status of top shearers, beginning competition shearing and his first shearing competition which he won. Describes reaching the semi-finals at the Golden Shears in 1973 and winning in 1974 and 1975 and shearing in Australia as part of the prize. Mentions replacing Ivan Bowen as a Wool Board instructor and involvement in judging.Gives opinions on the future of the sheep industry and life after shearing. Discusses not recommending his son be a shearer. Mentions he is now a paraplegic. Interviewer(s) - Laurie Keats Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008233; OHC-008234 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2510. Photograph of Norm Blackwee, Golden Shears champion 1974 and 1975; Norm Blackwell shearing in 1974; Norm Blackwell advising on shearing in 1975; Norm Blackwell in 1998" @default.
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- W3014737589 title "Interview with Norman Blackwell" @default.
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