Pourerere Station

Date: 1891-1892

By: Williams, George Alexander, 1861-1938

Reference: qMS-2220

Description: Correspondence covers sale and purchase of stock and farm business; also obituary Source of title - Transcribed `Alick' Williams, grandson of Archdeacon Henry Williams, was manager of Pourere Station, Hawkes Bay Quantity: 1 volume(s) (122 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (28 cm; ½ red calf, black boards)

Date: 1858-1892

From: Levin & Company Ltd : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1347-3/2/88

Description: James Henry Northwood - Papers re mortgages, leases etc to the following: Clifford Iveson, Wanganui; Charles Kemble, Carterton; Charles James Nairn and John Nairn, Wanganui & Pourere; Walter Turnbull, Wellington (see also Series 6. Northwood Trust); Richard Nosworthy (see James B Green) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Nairn, Eric Wright, 1880-1925

Reference: Pan-1427-F

Description: Panoramic view taken from a homestead with one corner of the brick house visible on the far right. Looking over rhododendrons and other trees surrounding a grass tennis court. Drive down from the right and out through the middle of the image. Garden and trees on the left of the drive including a semi-circular hedge. Farm buildings partially hidden on left and centre. Paddocks, tussock grass on hills in the background and behind the house on the right. Photograph taken in the 1920s by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] E.W. Nairn. Waipawa. 3. 15 Normal Sky Shaded; Marginal notes on negative - 2 2 2 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 109.2 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Nairn, Eric Wright, 1880-1925

Reference: Pan-1426-F

Description: Panorama of a sheep farm in Hawke's Bay, possibly Pourerere sheep station. Looking down into wide valley, hills on the left and in the middle distance. Rolling hills on the right. Cabbage trees and flax on a slope in the foreground. Unsealed road leading to a large two-storeyed farmhouse in the middle distance, centre left. Smaller house on the way up the drive to the homestead, and other buildings partially hidden by trees. Woolshed and farm workers' cottages to the left of the homestead. Several horses in a paddock on the right, sheep and cows grazing on various paddocks in the valley and on the hills behind. Photograph taken in the 1920s by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] E.W. Nairn. Waipawa. H.B.; Marginal notes on negative - 4 4 4 4 4 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 115.0 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Nairn, Eric Wright, 1880-1925

Reference: Pan-1428-F

Description: Panoramic view of a large two-storeyed Arts and Crafts styled brick house on the far left, possibly Pourerere Station homestead. Slate roof, steps up to a deep entrance porch with a stone base. Deep porch upstairs above the entrance. Large lawn/tennis court in foreground surrounded by hedges. Rockery on the left of the lawn leading up to a smaller lawn. Farm buildings behind hedges and a drive. Two women standing in a field in the middle distance. Various trees in the picture including cabbage trees and pine trees. Rhododendrons, azaleas and garden around the lawn/court. Car parked up on a rise beside the house on the far left. Photograph taken in the 1920s by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] E.W. Nairn. Waipawa. 3 20 normal; Marginal notes on negative - 3 3 3 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 104.0 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Nairn, Eric Wright, 1880-1925

Reference: Pan-1430-F

Description: Panoramic view taken from behind the homestead. Hills sloping down from the right with a creek running down to left foreground. Cabbage trees in gullys, sheep grazing on hillside paddocks. Water tanks up the hill far right. Roof of homestead and small farm building partially hidden by trees on the far left. Photograph taken in the 1920s by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] E.W. Nairn. Waipawa. 3 15 normal 3; Marginal notes on negative - 1 1 1 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 112.0 cm

Date: 1876

By: Nairn, Francis Edward, 1819?-1910; Mantell, Catherine Louise Marguerite, 1867-1950

Reference: B-038-010

Description: Shows the Nairn homestead ("Pourerere") in the distance, with a foreground of river and pasture with cabbage trees. The background includes groups of farm buildings and distant hills. The house was near Waipawa in Hawkes Bay Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in ink. Lower left, Frank Nairn delt. Feb 1876 The property was owned by John Nairn, the artist's father. The homestead was built in 1875. It was destroyed in the 1950s Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink, 243 x 510 mm Finding Aids: Listed in the typescript Catalogue of pictures and art objects in the Alexander Turnbull Library [1937 or later], p. 12, item 1.. Provenance: Donation: Mrs W. G. Mantell, Wellington, 8 August 1934

Date: 1978

From: Craig, Elsdon Walter Grant, 1917-1980 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7888-143

Description: Notes and papers relating to the Nairn family and to Pourerere Station, much of the material having been researched by Nancy G Wynyard. Includes genealogical tables. Quantity: 1 folder(s).