The Farmers' Co-operative Organisation Society Ltd (FCOS) opened their saleyards at Inglewood in June 1916. They operated in opposition to the established yards of Matthews & Gamlin (est. 1908 and sited at the Dudley/Mountain Road intersection) taken over in April 1916 by Newton King Ltd .
The FCOS yards operated for 86 years and, as Taranaki Farmers, held their final sale in November 2002 (photos). For many years the roadside dairy shed was a centre of stock sale days at Inglewood. It and the sale days were immortalised in several of author, David Hill's Moaville articles. The cattle pavilion (the building at the rear) was built in 1974.
The buildings and yards were subsequently demolished and major earthworks on the site in 2013-4 removed all evidence of them.
Taranaki Civil Construction now (2015) operates from the site.
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Farmers Co-operation: New Saleyards at Inglewood (TDN 29 June 1916)
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