A newspaper report in October 1923 reported that the residents of Yurgo and district were anxious to have a hall of their own. As a means of raising funds, an Ugly Man’s Competition had been started. Other fund raising activities included dances and Sports Days.
Yurgo school first operated a mile north of Yurgo, in a stone outbuilding of a farmhouse. The school had 12 pupils and opened on January 26th 1926. This building was only to be a temporary arrangement until the Yurgo hall was built. It did not meet with Department requirements - it had no ceiling or heating, no table or chair for the teacher.
The District Inspector described the toilets of the school as "but bag structures of primitive type, otherwise crudely effective". The Chairman of the school committee replied to this by saying such arrangements had to be tolerated. Part of his letter included this statement:
"As regards to sanitary arrangements, that arrangement is good enough for a temporary affair, as there are people up here living in bag rooms, to say nothing of enjoying the luxury of bags for their WC's. This is as yet a primitive district and our arrangements must be primitive."
The Education Department decided to tolerate the building until the hall was completed. They paid rent from January to September 1926 but declined to after that.
The Yurgo school was transferred to the new hall on June 27th 1927. Yurgo school continued after the opening of Karoonda Area School and did not close until December 1946.
In June 1954 it was reported that a committee had been formed to raise funds to rebuild the Yurgo Memorial Hall which was destroyed by a storm.
The foundations for the new hall were laid adjacent to the old, but the new hall was never completed.
The cache is a 200ml plastic clip lock container painted black. It contains a bagged logbook, stashnote, pencil and a couple swaps.