Tuturau is a part of the electoral district of Mataura, and is in the Mataura riding of the county of Southland. It is about five miles from Mataura, on the Wyndham road. The district is devoted to agriculture and pasturage. A good many of the smaller settlers go in largely for dairy farming, and a local dairy is in operation. Tuturau has a school. and post office, and the school has an attendance of fort-ynine children. Presbyterian church services are held in the school house once a fortnight.

The Tuturau Dairy Factory is owned by the Tuturau Dairy Factory Company, Limited, which is a farmers' co-operative company with offices at Wyndham. Mr J. McLauchlan, of Wyndham, is secretary of the company The factory, which stands on an acre of ground, about four miles and a-half from Mataura, is complete and up-to-date in every respect, and has two vats, a boiler, and an engine. The output is about sixty tons of cheese in the season. There is a comfortable residence for the manager and his assistant.

Mr. Walter C. Hislop , Cheesemaker and Manager of the Tuturau Dairy Factory, was born in 1882, at Kaitangata, where he was educated and brought up on his father's farm. He went to the Edendale dairy factory in 1900, and was afterwards for some time with Mr Cunningham of the Wyndham factory, where he remained until taking charge of the Tuturau factory on its establishment page 1097 in 1904. Mr Hislop is a member of Lodge Alma, Wyndham, Independent Order of Oddfellows, American Constitution. He was for about a year a member of the Clutha Mounted Rifles, and when at Wyndham was an enthusiastic footballer.

Finch, Edward , Farmer, “Both-well,” Tuturau. “Bothwell” is a compact farm of 141 acres, on which the proprietor conducts mixed farming, although his attention is devoted chiefly to dairying, for which he has a separator driven by a small engine. Mr Finch was born in 1857, at Dunedin, and is the fifth son of the late Mr John Finch, who came out by the ship “John Wickliffe,” in 1848, and died in 1897, leaving five sons, four daughters, and sixty-two grandchildren. Mr Edward Finch was educated at Milton, where he was brought up on his father's farm, and in 1878 he started farming on his own account in the Milton district, where he remained for seven years. He afterwards engaged in hotel keeping, rabbiting by contract and other occupations until taking up a farm in the Mataura district in 1895. Three years later he acquired “Both-well.” Mr Finch has been a member of the Tuturau school committee for six years. He was married, in 1887, to a daughter of the late Mr George Armstrong, and has seven daughters and two sons.