The Hundred of Yongala is a

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unit of

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 ...

located in the

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. It is one of the 12 hundreds of the County of Dalhousie and was proclaimed by Governor James Fergusson in 1871. The eponymous township of Yongala lies in the west of the hundred and the larger township of

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in the north east. The locality of Sunnybrae occupies the remainder of the hundred.

Local government

The District Council of Yongala was established in 1883 bringing local government administration to the hundred for the first time. Shortly after, in 1886, the

Corporate Town of Peterborough The Corporate Town of Peterborough was a local government area in South Australia centred on the town of Peterborough. It came into existence on 7 October 1886 when it separated from the surrounding District Council of Yongala. It was initially k ...

seceded from Yongala to directly represent the interests of the township of

in the hundred's north east. In 1935, all that part of the Hundred of Youngala outside the township of Peterborough was absorbed by the new

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which, like the corporate town, had its council seat within the town. The two were amalgamated in 1997, bringing the hundred back under the administration of a single governing body for the first time in more than a hundred years.

References

{{reflist Yongala 1871 establishments in Australia