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

Lind, William

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.