The 85-year-old Arding shearer who has no plans of slowing down

Rachel Baxter
Updated September 12 2017 - 3:40pm, first published September 7 2017 - 10:57am
SHEARER FOR LIFE: "It’s my life and that’s why I want to really keep active." Ray Williams, of Arding, is still shearing at 85. Photo: Rachel Baxter.
SHEARER FOR LIFE: "It’s my life and that’s why I want to really keep active." Ray Williams, of Arding, is still shearing at 85. Photo: Rachel Baxter.

It’s an early spring morning in Arding and the frost is thinning, clinging to the rusty railing outside Ray Williams’ shearing shed.

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Rachel Baxter

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