James Moseley (politician)

Minutes of Evidence in the report of the 1927 Royal Commission into the Pastoral Industry, taken Monday June 14, 1926 (Parliament House, Adelaide) state that James Moseley said that he and his brother had an interest in the establishment of the opening of Wilcherry, north of Kimba, South Australia, and that 'we spent £800 on it, but prices were so low that we could not carry on, and we went to work again.

For a time he managed Yadlamalka and Black Point stations, and in 1880, having raised sufficient capital, returned to Coondambo,[4] and went into partnership with the owner Robert Bruce (c. 1835 – 4 November 1908).

They were the first in northern South Australia to employ wire netting to keep out wild dogs and the rabbit pest, which they exterminated by fencing off the watercourses and waiting for a heatwave.

[2] Shortly after 1900 Moseley took over the neglected Yardea, Paney, Pondana, Yarloo and Carcuppa stations in the Gawler Ranges, turning them from degraded land overrun with rabbits into a profitable sheep run.

In 1910 he left the land and was elected to the House of Assembly seat of Flinders, which encompassed Eyre Peninsula, which he knew well, and was regularly returned until he retired 22 years later.