Hundred of Forster

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Forster
South Australia
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Forster
Coordinates 34°46′44″S139°40′01″E / 34.779°S 139.667°E / -34.779; 139.667 Coordinates: 34°46′44″S139°40′01″E / 34.779°S 139.667°E / -34.779; 139.667
Established1 May 1883
Area270 km2 (104 sq mi)
LGA(s) Mid Murray Council
Region Murray Mallee
County Albert
Lands administrative divisions around Forster:
Ridley Nildottie Bakara
Ridley Forster Bandon
Younghusband Bowhill Vincent

The Hundred of Forster, formerly the hundreds of Giles and Morphett, is a cadastral hundred in the County of Albert, South Australia.

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The localities of Forster, Purnong, and Claypans are within the hundred along with a large southern part of the bounded locality of Nildottie.

Plan of the Hundred of Forster, 1884 Hundred of Forster, 1884 (22907454546).jpg
Plan of the Hundred of Forster, 1884

History

The Hundred of the Murray was the first cadastral division made in the space now occupied by the Hundred of Forster. When roughly half of Murray was split into smaller hundreds in 1860, the Hundred of Giles and Hundred of Morphett were gazetted and occupied northern and southern parts, respectively, of the same land. These divisions were short lived, however, as the Hundred of Forster and southerly adjacent Hundred of Bowhill were proclaimed in 1883 and Giles and Morphett were abolished. [1] Part of Morphett came to be within the new Hundred of Forster while the most part became the new Hundred of Bowhill.

In 1888 the District Councils Act 1887 forced the annexation of the Hundred of Forster by the District Council of Caurnamont, seated at Walker Flat on the other side of the river, bringing local government to the hundred for the first time. In 1935, most of the Caurnamount council, including the Hundred of Forster, amalgamated with the District Council of Angas to form the District Council of Marne. Marne became a part of the consolidated District Council of Ridley in 1976 and then part of the much larger District Council of Ridley-Truro in 1991. In 1997 Ridley-Truro was abolished by amalgamation with the district councils of Mannum, Morgan and part of Mount Pleasant to form the new Mid Murray Council, which locally administers the hundred at present.

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References

  1. "Placename Details: Hundred of Giles". Property Location Browser. 21 January 2009. SA0026069. Archived from the original on 7 December 2015. Retrieved 1 November 2017. Derivation of Name: A Forster, MP 1855-1864; Other Details: area 104 square miles.