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Noreena Downs Station, often referred to as Noreena Downs, is a pastoral lease that has been used as both a sheep station and a cattle station.
It is located about 127 kilometres (79 mi) north of Newman and 135 kilometres (84 mi) south of Marble Bar in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.[1]
The property was pioneered by A.W. Townshend and comprised 800,000 acres (323,749 ha); Townsend used it to graze cattle.[2] Townshend and Jarman put the property on the market in 1910[3] then in 1911 it was purchased by Hardie, Walker, McLarty and Haynes.[2][4] They introduced sheep to the property and by 1914 had a flock of 7,000 sheep and 3,000 cattle.[2] In 1916 the station was stocked with 9,000 sheep.[5] By the 1930s Noreena Downs was owned by Hardie and Middleditch and was a million acre sheep station running about 30,000 sheep.[2]
Currently the property is owned by the Paull family and occupies an area of 910,128 acres (368,316 ha). The Paulls have been at Noreena Downs since 1981, when Tex and Tub Paull acquired it in partnership. By 1983 the Paulls owned the property outright although it was run down with no paddocks, working water points or homestead. They introduced a mixed herd of cattle, mostly Brahman and Droughtmaster.[6]
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edit- ^ "Map of Noreena Downs, WA". Bonzle. Digital Atlas Pty Limited. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
- ^ a b c d "Noreena Downs Station". InHerit. Heritage Council of Western Australia. 1 January 2017. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
- ^ "Pilbarra". Northern Times. Vol. VI, no. 277. Western Australia. 10 December 1910. p. 4. Retrieved 12 April 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Stock and Station". Geraldton Guardian. Vol. V, no. 599. Western Australia. 15 December 1910. p. 4. Retrieved 12 April 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Advertising". The Pilbarra Goldfield News. Vol. XVIII, no. 983. Western Australia. 11 April 1916. p. 2. Retrieved 12 April 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Noreena Downs Station". Central Station. 2014. Retrieved 12 April 2017.