Lind's Bridge district takes its name from a small bridge across a cutting on the Invercargill-Kingston line of railway. The bridge was made to afford communication to Mr William Lind, the first settler in the district, and was appropriately named after him. The district is in the Awarua electorate, and in the riding of the same name in the county of Southland. There is a flag station, which is six miles from Invercargill, and stands sixty-one feet above the level of the sea. Lind's Bridge is an agricultural and pastoral district, and the land slopes down to the Makarewa River Flats. Originally the district was covered with dense bush, much of which has been cut down to admit of the progress of settlement.

Lind, William , Farmer, Lind's Bridge. Mr Lind was born in Lanarkshire, Scotland, in May, 1833. When a youth, he went to Glasgow, and was employed for a time on the Edinburgh and Glasgow railway, afterwards becoming foreman in the goods department. He arrived at the Bluff on the 3rd of May, 1863, in the ship “Sir William Eyre,” after a voyage of six months, during which thirty-six deaths from typhoid fever occurred on board. After working for some time at sawmilling, Mr Lind went to the West Coast diggings, but returned to Southland in 1871, and took up 194 acres of freehold, about six miles from Invercargill. The land was then all in bush or lowland swamp, but has since been brought into a good state of cultivation, and is now worked chiefly as a dairy farm. Mr Lind is a member of the Makarewa school committee, and has been chairman for many years. He was married, in February, 1871, to the daughter of the late Mr Charles Coster, one of the pioneer settlers of Nelson, and has one son and five daughters.