Finley, New South Wales

[3] Periods of severe drought, combined with the Great Depression of the early 1930s, forced many farmers to abandon their holdings.

This enabled the region to prosper with beef and dairy cattle, sheep, wheat, rice, barley, maize and canola.

Finley High School attracts students from a wide catchment including the towns of Berrigan, Tocumwal, Jerilderie and Blighty.

The town also offers soccer, touch football, basketball, tennis and a Pony Club.

Another club, the Southern Riverina Jets, relocated from Tocumwal in the mid 1990s and won four Goulburn Murray Rugby League First Grade titles in 1993, 1994, 1997 and 2002, before folding in 2008.

Finley station , built in an American "pioneer" style as a cost-saving measure during the depression at the turn of the 19th century.