The Hundred of Forster, formerly the hundreds of Giles and Morphett, is a

cadastral A cadastre or cadaster is a comprehensive recording of the real estate or real property's metes-and-bounds of a country.Jo Henssen, ''Basic Principles of the Main Cadastral Systems in the World,'/ref> Often it is represented graphically in a cad ...

hundred 100 or one hundred (Roman numeral: C) is the natural number following 99 and preceding 101. In medieval contexts, it may be described as the short hundred or five score in order to differentiate the English and Germanic use of "hundred" to de ...

in the

County of Albert The County of Albert is one of the 49 cadastral counties of South Australia on the east banks of the River Murray. It was proclaimed by Governor Richard MacDonnell in 1860 and named for Albert, Prince Consort of Queen Victoria. Hundreds A f ...

South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories ...

. The localities of Forster,

Purnong Purnong or Purnong Landing is the location of a cable ferry across the Murray River upstream of Mannum. The town is on the cliffs above the left (eastern) bank of the river. It is by road from Mannum on the west side of the Murray, and on the e ...

, and Claypans are within the hundred along with a large southern part of the bounded locality of

Nildottie Nildottie is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the east side of the Murray River about east of the state capital of Adelaide and about north-east of the municipal seat in Mannum. Nildottie's boundaries were crea ...

History

The

Hundred of the Murray The Hundred of the Murray (later called Hundred of Murray) was a cadastral hundred in South Australia spanning land two miles either side of the navigable portion of the Murray River in the 1850s and 1860s. The hundred was gazetted on 10 Novemb ...

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 Bowhill may refer to: ;People: *Frederick Bowhill, (1880 – 1960), RAF Air Chief Marshal ;Places: * Bowhill, Fife, near Kirkcaldy, Scotland *Bowhill, Scottish Borders, near Selkirk, Scotland *Bowhill House, a historic house near Bowhill at Selkirk ...

were proclaimed in 1883 and Giles and Morphett were abolished. 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 The District Councils Act 1887 was an act of the Parliament of South Australia. It received assent on 9 December 1887, and its provisions came into effect when proclaimed by Governor William C. F. Robinson on 5 January 1888. The legislation intr ...

forced the annexation of the Hundred of Forster by the District Council of Caurnamont, seated at

Walker Flat Walker Flat (previously Walkers Flat) is a small town on the Murray River in South Australia. It is one of the crossings of the river by cable ferry. The school opened in 1948 but has since closed. Walker Flat is located approximately from the ...

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 The District Council of Ridley-Truro was a local government area in South Australia from 1991 to 1997. It commenced on 1 October 1991 following the amalgamation of the District Council of Ridley and the District Council of Truro. It comprised t ...

in 1991. In 1997 Ridley-Truro was abolished by amalgamation with the district councils of

Mannum Mannum is a historic town on the west bank of the Murray River in South Australia, east of Adelaide. At the 2016 census, the urban area of Mannum had a population of 2,398. Mannum is the seat of the Mid Murray Council, and is situated in the ...

, Morgan and part of Mount Pleasant to form the new

Mid Murray Council The Mid Murray Council is a local government area in South Australia in the Murray and Mallee region of South Australia. The council spans the area from the Riverland through the Murraylands to the eastern slopes of the Mount Lofty Ranges. It in ...

, which locally administers the hundred at present.

References

{{reflist Forster 1883 establishments in Australia

History

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