Yardea

Yardea
Location in South Australia

Coordinates: 32°22′48″S 135°31′26″E / 32.38°S 135.524°E / -32.38; 135.524 (Yardea)

Yardea Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a sheep station in South Australia.

It is situated approximately 64 kilometres (40 mi) north east of Minnipa and 157 kilometres (98 mi) west of Iron Knob in the Gawler Ranges.[1] Yardea was the first property taken up in the Gawler Ranges and at one time an estimated 80-90,000 sheep were shorn there.[2]

Established at some time prior to 1865 the station overseer, Mr. John Edmondson, was lost in the bush that year.[3]

A police camp was established at Yardea in 1871 after being transferred from the nearby Paney Station homestead. James Moseley owned Yardea in 1904 when he acquired Paney Station and it became part of Yardea Station.[4]

The property was owned by Main, Sells and Company in 1881 when they sold 750 head of cattle and 7,000 wethers to A. Wooldridge of Arcoona Station.[5] Main and Sells placed Yardea up for auction along with Wilgena Station in 1882. Yardea occupied an area of 1,063 square miles (2,753 km2) and was stocked with 54,000 sheep.[6]

In the early 1890s when the lease expired the run was deserted. By 1901 the lease was still abandoned like many others in the area but left under a caretaker, the property encompassed an area of 300 square miles (777 km2).[7] It remained unlet until it was re-established by Andrew Tennant and James Moseley in 1904.[2] The 1,487 square miles (3,851 km2) property was sold to A.J. and P.A. McBride in 1916 after much improving for a sum of £72,000 when it was stocked with 40,000 sheep.[2]

The McBrides cut the property into five blocks in 1926 and sold three blocks by auction to Harry Bouily and the other two to T. H. MacKay and son of Thurlga Station.[8]

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References

  1. ↑ "Archives – Transcript – In Search of Kings". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 1 July 1999. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 "Man on the Land". The Register (Adelaide: National Library of Australia). 22 October 1926. p. 11. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
  3. ↑ "South Australia". The Australasian (Melbourne, Victoria: National Library of Australia). 25 November 1865. p. 12. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
  4. ↑ "Gawler Ranges National Park" (PDF). National Parks South Australia. 2012. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
  5. ↑ "Revision Court". South Australian Weekly Chronicle (Adelaide: National Library of Australia). 1 October 1881. p. 4. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
  6. ↑ "Advertising.". South Australian Register (Adelaide: National Library of Australia). 8 September 1882. p. 2. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
  7. ↑ "Abandoned Pastoral Leases". South Australian Register (Adelaide: National Library of Australia). 8 December 1900. p. 6. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
  8. ↑ "Out Among the People". The Advertiser (Adelaide: National Library of Australia). 19 February 1954. p. 4. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
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