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MOB HITS TOWN: Te Kuit's main street was awash with wool as the annual New Zealand Shears Running of the Sheep event wove its way through town.
The event, the largest of its kind in the world, has been held for the past five years in the town and is based on Spain's running of the bulls in Pamplona.
Co-ordinator Debie Glover said apart from a few escapes across the railway track and some animals getting stuck between cars, the event was a big success.
She said for the first time they had built a bridge for the sheep to run across, which made an impressive sight.
The sheep run is the brainchild of King Country farmer John Fagan and was started to coincide with the New Zealand Shearing Championships and the Great New Zealand Muster in the self-proclaimed shearing capital of the world.