A photograph of a busy Warragul Saleyards c.1930s.
From the early 1900s, a commercial saleyard was run by Skews and Patterson. It was situated opposite the railway trucking yard as advertised in the West Gippsland Gazette on February 6, 1906.
On July 14, 1937, the Warragul Shire Council decided to buy the saleyards owned by Richard Skews and Son as well as a yard owned by the Gippsland and Northern Co-operative Co Ltd to establish a municipal saleyard at Warragul.
Councillors considered that Warragul was ideally situated in the country at Gippsland for stock markets.
Since then, council sold the saleyards to a private company. The yards have been owned by three private companies.
Photograph and information courtesy of the Warragul and District Historical Society.
This ‘Snapshot of the Past’ was previously published in Warragul Gazette on 21 May 2019.
The society’s museum at the Old Shire Hall in Warragul displays a range of historical photographs. This image is number 10182.