Wharepai Hotel

Image: Tauranga Heritage Collection, Ref. 0447/08

This building, known as Wharepai, was located on the corner of Hamilton Street and Cameron Road and was, at one time, owned by the Asher family. Asher Asher was the first of the family to settle in Tauranga in the 1870s. His son David Asher was proprietor of the Tauranga Hotel from 1891 to 1904. For many years the house was run by the Clough family as the Wharepai Hotel. It was demolished in 1971.