Meeberrie is a homestead and station name in the Murchison district of

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. The station is situated approximately north of Mullewa. The Butcher family were the first leaseholders of the station and arrived from

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in 1876. The

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listed station

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was architect designed and built of local stone between 1917 and 1919. The homestead has an iron roof, a verandah surrounds the building and has two bay windows. A detached building with the jackaroo quarters, laundry and storeroom is found behind the main building. The station occupies an area of of which is composed of

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s and

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. The soil has a low level of

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with 87% of the land being described as nil or minor. The perennial vegetation condition is poor with 66% of vegetation cover being described as poor or very poor. In 1915, Alf Cream took 2350 sheep from the Butcher's

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and drove them overland for nine weeks to Meeberrie. The journey should have taken five weeks but the country was waterlogged following twenty consecutive days of heavy rain. The

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had risen and the drovers had to wait nine days to cross. A magnitude 6.8 earthquake (also claimed at 7.2

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) hit the property on 29 April 1941, the largest on-shore quake to be recorded in Australia. The current lessee is Laststar Investments, Meeberrie is operating under the Crown Lease number CL178-1966 and has the Land Act number LA3114/512.

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