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

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 1 March 2009.