to attend some bye-races at Merritt’s Cookendina Inn”. They were robbed of three race-horses together with saddles and bridles. In June 1866 the Crown Prosecutor, David Forbes, and Judge Francis of the District Court, spent an uncomfortable night at the inn at Cookardinia on their way from Wagga Wagga to Albury. The two men were subjected to flea bites and “a sad deficiency of bed-clothes” during the night. As a result of the experience Edward Post (John Post's eldest son) was summoned to appear before the Albury Police Court and charged under the Publicans' Act with “not having proper accommodation” in the form of “two proper and well-supplied bedrooms” on the occasion of the visit by the “learned gentlemen”. Post was fined 40 shillings and costs. In 1868 a publican's license was granted to Elizabeth Stamp for the Squatters’ Arms Hotel at Cookardinia. In 1869 John Post himself became the licensee of the hotel. Cookardinia village Cookardinia Post Office opened on 1 December 1873 and closed in 1976. With two interruptions, there was a school at Cookardinia, between 1877 and 1954. In late 1888 a new bridge was erected over the Cookardinia Creek near Cookardinia at the site of the old bridge. The construction was described as “a substantial one” which “will secure the safety of heavy traffic crossing”. Cookardinia Football Club The Cookardinia Football Club was established in 1897 and played its first game against Germanton (Holbrook). In 1955, the club merged with the Mangoplah Football Club. Gallery References External links Towns in the Riverina Towns in New South Wales Ghost towns in New South Wales