Written on back of the photograph "stock sale yards and racecourse at top centre.

Looking over: Feilding Sale yards Manchester Street Fergusson Street Bank of New Zealand Feilding Railway Station

Taken at 2pm on Friday 12th January 2018, showing the different transport operators picking up stock from the days sale. Adult Section

A quiet day at the saleyards - South Street. Photographed on a Thursday afternoon

Looking at intersection on South Street, Kawakawa Road & Manchester Street.

The Sheep section of the Feilding saleyards, Manchester Street, Feilding

Food and Fibre Minister John Luxton officially opened the Feilding Livestock Centre's new $500,000 cattle rostrum. Completely re-modelled after fire last year disrupted work on upgrading the facility, the new centre's inclusion of electronic data display and processing puts it among the country's most advanced buildings of its kind. The refurbished centre has been operating successfully for about a month already.

Noel Christensen, Manager Feilding saleyards, 1982. He began working there in 1962. Full article in 'Evening Standard' April 21, 1982. The article notes that at the time, Feilding saleyards was the third largest in the country, the stock turnover exceeded only by Addington in Christchurch and Stortford Lodge in Hawkes Bay.