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Kōrero: Country schooling

Calf club day

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Calf club day

Many country schools have calf clubs, an idea that dates from the 1920s. Children rear calves at home, and bring them to school to be judged. These pupils of Te Kōwhai Primary School, near Hamilton, parade their animals in 1973.

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Archives New Zealand - Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga

Reference: AAQT 6401/B3720

by Gregory Riethmaier

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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/16522/calf-club-day (accessed 4 June 2026).

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