The regions’ stock and station industry is mourning the loss of respected agent David Armitage who died recently at the age of 90.

In an item in the Northern Daily Leader, Australian Livestock and Property Agents Association president Peter Baldwin described Mr Armitage as an icon of the stock and station agency profession.

Mr Armitage, along with Norman Buckley, established Armitage and Buckley, an agency that still runs in Armidale today and was President of the NSW Stock and Station Agents’ Association in 1991 and 1992 and was bestowed life membership in 1993.

Mr Armitage will be remembered for his fight to defend the industry from the NSW government’s planned move to deregulate the real estate and stock and station agency licence, a battle he eventually won.