sentences:  Most hundreds had a town near the middle, and smaller sections closer to the township.Contemporary definitions of rural real estate in South Australia still typically includes the section number(s) and hundred name.A total of 540 hundreds were proclaimed in the state from 1846 to 1971, but only 535 exist today, following the discontinuation of the hundreds of Murray, Cooper, Randell, Giles and Morphett alongside the Murray River in 1870.