Story: Country schooling

Pet days (1st of 3)

Pet days

Pet days are an enduring country school event. Children of Eureka School in the Waikato tend their pet lambs and calves in 1968.

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Archives New Zealand - Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga
Reference: AAQT 6539/A88,060
Photograph by Gregory Riethmaier

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Nancy Swarbrick, 'Country schooling - Years of reform: 1989 onwards', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/16521/pet-days (accessed 2 October 2023)

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 24 Nov 2008