The District Council of Port Gawler was a

local government area A local government area (LGA) is an administrative division of a country that a local government is responsible for. The size of an LGA varies by country but it is generally a subdivision of a State (administrative division), state, province, divi ...

in South Australia from 1856 to 1935. It was proclaimed on 11 September 1856 after being severed from the District Council of Mudla Wirra. Its jurisdiction consisted of most of the

Hundred of Port Gawler The Hundred of Port Gawler is a cadastral unit of hundred located on the central Adelaide Plains in South Australia and bounded on the south by the Gawler River. It is centred on the town of Two Wells with the locality of Port Gawler at the sou ...

, excluding that land in the north west corner north of the

River Light The Light River (Kaurna: ''Yarralinka''), commonly called the River Light, is a seasonal and significant river in the Mid North region of the Australian state of South Australia named for early surveyor William Light. The River Light has gi ...

, and a south-east portion of the

Hundred of Grace The Hundred of Grace is a cadastral unit of hundred located on the northern Adelaide Plains of South Australia spanning the township of Mallala and the Grace Plains. The hundred was proclaimed in 1856 in the County of Gawler and named by Govern ...

which fell south of the River Light. It was thus bounded on the north by River Light, on the south by River Gawler, the west by Gulf St Vincent and on the east by the eastern borders of the cadastral hundreds. The district council's seat was located in the township of

Two Wells Two Wells is a town approximately north of the Adelaide city centre in South Australia adjacent to Port Wakefield Road and passed by the Adelaide-Port Augusta railway line. The first settlers in the area used two aboriginal wells in the area a ...

. On 1 May 1935, it was amalgamated with the district councils of Dublin and Grace to create the District Council of Light. The new district council was subsequently renamed as the District Council of Mallala in 1937 and again as the

Adelaide Plains Council The Adelaide Plains Council (formerly the District Council of Mallala) is a local government area in South Australia. It consists of a largely rural region along the Gulf St Vincent, covering a total area of approximately 926 km2. The counc ...

in 2016.

Chairmen

The following persons were elected to serve as chairman of the district council for the following terms: *C. Temby (1872–73) * T. Cowan (1873–75) *R. Day (1875–77) *C. Temby (1877–81) *R. Gilks (1881–84) *H. Secomb (1884–87) *S. Condon (1887–88) *H. Secomb (1888–90) *T. Hatcher (1890–92) *W. B. Cowan (1892–98) *H. W. Wilson (1898–1900) *W. H. Wasley (1900–01) *W. B. McCord (1901–02) (3 months only) *W. B. Cowan (1901–03) *H. W. Wilson (1903–13) *H. J. Wasley (1913–15) *J. Rowe (1915–17) *T. W. Day (1917–25) *S. A. Wasley (1925–27) *E. A. Brooks (1927–29) *E. H. Green (1929–31) *H. H. Loller (1931–33) *A. A. Wilson (1933–35)

References

{{Former local government areas in South Australia Port Gawler, District Council of 1856 establishments in Australia 1935 disestablishments in Australia