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Kōrero: Country schooling

Pet days

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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

by Gregory Riethmaier

Permission of Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga must be obtained before any re-use of this material.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Nancy Swarbrick, Country schooling – Years of reform: 1989 onwards, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/16521/pet-days (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Nancy Swarbrick, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.