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Stormy weather: a wet summer holiday

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Stormy weather: a wet summer holiday

This cartoon comments on the bad weather experienced by many campers during January 2012. In recent years there have been calls to shift the traditional January school holiday to February, when the weather is believed better.

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Nancy Swarbrick, Holidays – Holiday activities, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/cartoon/40766/stormy-weather-a-wet-summer-holiday (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 24 January 2013.