Eastern Bush is on the main road from Otautau to Clifden, on the Waiau river, and, at the census of 1901, it had a population of only seventeen. The district is in the electorate of Wallace and in the Waiau riding of the Wallace county. It has a post office and public school, and dairy-farming is extensively carried on by the settlers. The local cheese factory is worked on co-operative lines, and is the property of the neighbouring farmers. Eastern Bush is five miles from Clifden and seven from Orawia. Services in connection with the Presbyterian church are held in the district.

Waiau Dairy Factory , Eastern Bush. This factory was erected, and is owned, by the Waiau Dairy Factory Company, Limited, which is a farmers' co-operative association. It is built on five acres of land, and is a well-equipped cheese factory. Its engine-room measures 23 feet by 18 feet, and has a five horse-power boiler, and two and a-half horse-power engine. The receiving-room is 12 feet by 12 feet; making-room, 25 feet by 25 feet; and the curing-room, 30 feet by 25 feet. The output is from 55 to 60 tons.

Mr. Andrew Dunlop , Cheesemaker in the Waiau Dairy Factory, was born at Pine Bush, in 1883, educated there, and brought up on the farm of his father. In 1899, he started work in the Seaward Downs Factory, and served there two seasons. He then went to the Wyndham factory for one season, and was appointed to the Waiau factory in October, 1903. At the 1903 winter show of the Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Association, he was awarded first prize (a gold medal) for the best five hundredweight of cheese from a factory with a 40-ton output.

Mr. A. Dunlop.

McCall. John , Sheepfarmer, Eastern Bush. Mr McCall holds at Eastern Bush a farm of 203 acres, in addition to a small run of 1,350 acres in the Belmount district, known as McIvor's Hill, and managed by one of his sons. Mr McCall was born in 1844, at Girvan. Scotland, educated at the Grammar School there, and brought up to farming on the farm of his father, who was for thirty years a road engineer in Girvan. He came to New Zealand in 1866 by the ship “William Davie,” and worked on farms and stations in the Taieri and Tokomairiro districts. In 1882, he removed to the Eastern Bush district, and took up his present farm, then in its natural state. He was the first settler in the district. Mr McCall has seen much service on the Eastern Bush school committee, as its chairman, treasurer, or secretary; and is an elder of the Waiau Presbyterian church. He was married, in 1881, to a daughter of the late Mr David Warnock, farmer, of Seaward Bush, and has a family of four sons and three daughters. As he served with a survey party throughout a large part of Southland in the years 1877–1880, Mr McCall has a comprehensive knowledge of the district.

Mr. And Mrs J. McCall.