A FORMER Border stock auctioneer has been hailed as a “good old-fashioned agent” worthy of a berth in a symbolic hall of fame.
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Peter Crawshaw died aged 83 on August 10 after a short illness and was farewelled at a funeral last week.
Nicknamed Silver, the grandfather of six had a long career in selling cattle and sheep across the Border.
His former co-auctioneer at Elders, Peter Ruaro said his honesty and focus on dealing on the facts were stand out qualities.
“He was straight as a gun barrel, he was the most black and white agent I had anything to do with,” he said.
“It was either right or wrong, there was no middle ground with Peter Crawshaw.
“He was a good old-fashioned agent.”
In his eulogy, son-in-law Steven Delaney said Mr Crawshaw’s contribution to the stock industry matched other well-known names.
“If there was a stock man’s hall of fame established in Albury-Wodonga, surnames such as Smith, Bottrell, Unthank, Scollard, Paull and Cox would all be mentioned, but rest assured that the surname of Crawshaw would certainly have been a nominee,” Mr Delaney said.
Mr Crawshaw was born in Albury on December 19, 1932, and grew up on a North Street property opposite the site of Lauren Jackson Stadium.
He began working for Younghusbands as a wool classer before moving into the auctioneering field.
Work took him to saleyards at Corowa, Corryong, Myrtleford and Wagga as well as Albury’s and Wodonga’s old selling centres.
Mr Ruaro joined him in 1984 and at their peak they were selling up to 85,000 head annually in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
They were attending up to four sales a week, selling both sheep and cattle.
“This a man who rain, hail or shine went to the pig-calf markets at the saleyards where Aldi Wodonga now stands, every Tuesday went to the cattle sales where the Target Wodonga complex now stands and every Wednesday went to the sheep sales at the saleyards where the Albury Base Hospital now stands,” Mr Delaney said.
Mr Crawshaw is survived by his wife Margaret, who he wed at St Patrick’s Church 57 years ago, and his children Tony and Vicki.
The couple lived in Mount Street, East Albury, before moving to Murray Gardens unit village in February.
