Hundred of Hall

{{Use Australian English|date=August 2019}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}} {{Infobox Australian place | type = cadastral | name = Hall | state = sa | county = Stanley | region = Mid North | lga = Wakefield | est = 23 February 1860 | coordinates = {{coord|34.06|S|138.50|E|display=inline,title}} | area_total_sq_mi = 56 | near-nw = Everard | near-n = Blyth | near-ne = Clare | near-e = Upper Wakefield | near-se = Alma | near-s = Dalkey | near-sw = Balaklava | near-w = Stow }} {{More citations needed|date=April 2022}} The '''Hundred of Hall''' is the cadastral unit of hundred on the northern Adelaide Plains centred on the town of Halbury.<ref name="PLB">{{Cite web |url=http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb |title=Search for 'Hundred of Hall' |ID=SA0028974 |publisher=Government of South Australia |accessdate=30 June 2017 |archive-date=7 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151207082745/http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> It is one of the 16 hundreds of the County of Stanley.<ref>{{Cite book |url=http://www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au/record=b1559606 |title=South Australia hundred maps 1:63 360 |publisher=Surveyor General's Office |date=1867}}</ref> It was named in 1860 after parliamentarian George Hall (1851-1867).<ref name="PLB"/> The main localities in the hundred are Halbury and Hoyleton with parts of Balaklava, Stow, Watchman and Kybunga, also within the hundred bounds.

==Local government== On 14 November 1878, the District Council of Hall was established, bringing local government to the hundred, following petitioning by resident landowners.<ref name="proclamation">{{cite web |url=http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/sa_gazette/1878/53.pdf |title=Proclamations |journal=South Australian Government Gazette |volume=1878 |edition=53 |publisher=Government of South Australia |page=1389 |accessdate=30 June 2017}}</ref> The five wards of Hall council were Hoyleton, Halbury, Wakefield, Woodlands and Watchman's Plains. The Watchman's Plains ward was moved to the District Council of Balaklava in 1911, the Halbury and Wakefield wards to the same in 1935, and the Hoyleton and Woodlands wards to the District Council of Blyth also in 1935.

From 1935 to 1997, the north and south parts of the hundred were locally governed by separate bodies: The south by Balaklava council then the District Council of Wakefield Plains from 1983; the north by Blyth council then the District Council of Blyth-Snowtown from 1987. In 1997 the merger of Wakefield Plains and Blyth-Snowtown councils brought the whole hundred back under the governance of a single local government with the creation of the Wakefield Regional Council. Since 1997, most of the hundred has been in the North ward of Wakefield council, with a south western portion near to the township of Balaklava being in the Central ward.

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