7 Feb 2025

Country Life: Fleecing the flock all in the name of charity

6:12 pm on 7 February 2025

Dozens of shearers slipped on their moccasins recently for the Shear For Life charity shearing event at Hinds last weekend.

The community event raised $150,000 for the Ashburton Cancer Society and Hospice Mid Canterbury.

Country Life went along to watch the action.

A shearer and wool handler at work at the Shear For Life fundraising event

Photo: Cosmo Kentish-Barnes

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Shear For Life

Photo: Cosmo Kentish-Barnes

Shear For Life

Photo: Cosmo Kentish-Barnes

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