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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Pine Bush

Pine Bush is a picturesque district in the electorate of Mataura and in the Toetoes riding of the county of Southland. The page 900 settlement is named from the estate which was farmed by Mr Hugh Carswell for many years and has recently been subdivided for closer settlement. The main road from Fortrose to Wyndham passes through the district, the centre of which is five miles from Waimahaka, fifteen miles from Wyndham, and four miles from Mataura Island. Agriculture and dairy farming are the principal industries, and there is a factory at Mataura Island and a creamery at Titiroa, where there is a railway station which serves the Pine Bush settlers. Pine Bush has a public school with an average attendance of fourteen, a Presbyterian church, and a small public hall; and there is a post office and telephone bureau at the Pine Bush accommodation house. The land is of an undulating character, and there are a number of very fine farms in the district. At the census of 1901 there was a population of 138