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Shearing at 73 and still loving it

Reading Time: 2 minutes Charmaine Barrett woke at 1:15am on Thursday morning to deliver newspapers in Gore. At around 3am she finished deliveries and then went back to bed, but was up again soon because 150 lambs were waiting to be shorn at local farmer Andrew Morrison’s woolshed. Barrett, who is 73 years old, started shearing when she was 22. Her dad had shearing contracts but struggled with asthma, so she jumped in to give him a rest in the mo…
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farmersweekly.co.nz broke the news in on Monday, March 2, 2026.
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