West Eyreton, in the county of Ashley, is a well settled district devoted almost entirely to sheep farming. It has two flag railway stations; one is known as West Eyreton, twenty-nine miles from Christchurch and 376 feet above sea level, and the other is named School Road, as it adjoins the West Eyreton school. This station is thirty-one miles from Christchurch, and 418 feet above sea level. The centre of the district is about three miles from Cust, and is reached by a good road. There are blacksmiths' and wheelwrights' shops near the West Eyreton railway station, and there is a daily mail service with Christchurch, but the nearest telegraph office is at Cust, three miles away. The population of the district is 431. Water abounds throughout the district, as the Waimakariri-Ashley Water Supply Board has constructed a network of races.