On January 6 1953, Godfrey Bowen broke the world record for sheep shearing at Opiki, Manawatu. His record was shearing 456 ewes in nine hours.
Godfrey had two brothers, Eion and Ivan who were also sheep shearers. Ivan was to later break Godfrey's record.
After setting his record, Godfrey was soon in demand at agricultural and pastoral society shows around the North Island. At one of these, a New Zealand Wool Board member saw Bowen in action and realised the potential of such an outstanding shearer for the wool industry. Later that year he was hired as chief instructor of the Wool Board's new shearing section, and demonstrated his technique at shows and shearing sheds around the country. He trained a team of 32 instructors and began senior instruction courses at Massey and Canterbury (Lincoln) Agricultural Colleges. Bowen displayed a flair for showmanship and public speaking, and his shearing demonstrations were entertaining as well as instructional. In 1955 he published a book, Wool away! , outlining his technique, and in 1960 he was appointed an MBE. He made demonstration tours of Australia, Britain, France, the United States, South America and the Soviet Union, where in 1963 he was made a Hero of Socialist Labour by the premier, Nikita Khrushchev.
He continued demonstrating shearing in New Zealand and overseas throughout the decade, and in 1977, at the age of 55, he shore for the New Zealand team at the world championships in England, finishing fourth and shearing 15 sheep in 17 minutes. He was also a shearing consultant in several countries, including South Africa, where he was responsible for a national survey of the sheep and wool industry. Bowen's shearing techniques had a lasting impact on the industry in New Zealand, but his entrepreneurial skills also endured, particularly through the Agrodome tourist venture in Rotorua, which he had devised and helped set up. He also helped organise, and competed in, the first Golden Shears national shearing tournament in Masterton in 1961, finishing second behind his brother Ivan. He was one of the inaugural inductees into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame in 1990. Godfrey Bowen died of a heart attack in Rotorua on 2 January 1994, survived by his wife and children.
Caption information sourced from Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand - http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographi...
Godfrey's world record success was capture by the National Film Unit in Pictorial Parade 3.
The National Film Unit was established to publicise New Zealand's participation and achievements during the Second World War. After 1945 the Film Unit expanded from producing weekly newsreels to making documentaries and films to the order of Government Departments. During its existence the Film Unit produced films for national organisations as well as many films on its own initiative. The private film industry in New Zealand relied heavily on the National Film Unit's extensive film processing facilities.
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K-FORCE CHRISTMAS. 226 ft. Christmas supplies go up to the battery area in Korea, where Maori soldiers cook the turkeys on the heated stones of a 'hangi.' WORLD SHEARING RECORD. 198 ft. Godfrey Bowen gains the world shearing record by shearing456 sheep in a nine-hour working day. DAMS AND DYNAMITE. 522 ft. At the site of the Whakamaru power station, on the Waikato River, an 800-ft. concrete diversion cut is prepared to carry the waters of the river while the massive dam is built. Diverting the river through the cut is effected by two spectacular explosions.
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