Hinds, New Zealand

Hinds is a small town in the Mid-Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island. It is located on the Canterbury Plains on the south bank of the Hinds River, which reaches the Pacific Ocean between the nearby localities of Longbeach and Lowcliffe. Other localities around Hinds include Ealing to the west, Willowby, Windermere, and Winslow to the northeast, and Eiffelton to the southeast.NamingThe township and the surrounding district are named after the Hinds River. The river in turn was named after the Reverend Samuel Hinds, a member of the Canterbury Association that organised the settlement of Canterbury.PopulationStatistics New Zealand's statistical area named Hinds covers a large amount of rural area around Hinds and Ashburton, and thus its population figure of 3,348 at the 2001 New Zealand Census of Population and Dwellings is not an accurate reflection of the population of Hinds township, which is much smaller.