Story: Veterinary services

Trainee vets at the operating table

Veterinary students and staff at Massey University attend to a sheep in an operating theatre, in March 1969.

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Hamish Mavor and Bob Gumbrell, Veterinary services – Post-war developments, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/19879/trainee-vets-at-the-operating-table (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by Hamish Mavor and Bob Gumbrell, published 1 March 2009.