13 Jan 2009

Mother-daughter set world shearing record

9:53 pm on 13 January 2009

A Wairoa mother and daughter have set a world shearing record.

Marg Baynes and her daughter Ingrid sheared 903 lambs in eight hours, breaking the previous women's two-stand record by more than 100.

The record was set at Moketenui station in the King Country on Tuesday.