Hinterland Stories

Sharing the memories of Montville, Flaxton, Balmoral and Hunchy.

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Find your own Frontier

Vale for Sydney Kirkby - Antarctic Surveyor, Explorer, Map Maker

Under the Radar – Obi Obi Creek and Tcheergun Walking Tracks

The MVA Walking Track from below Baroon Dam to the Narrows: 1989 – 1998 The first MVA record of a proposed walking track to the Obi Obi...

The History of the Montville Sports and Recreation Grounds

The Montville Sports and Recreation Ground, formerly the Montville Recreation Ground, is situated at 230 – 238, Balmoral Road, some three...

Sometimes Dreams do come True – The Inside Story of the Deck

It must have been ten years ago that I first heard the need for a deck on the eastern side of the hall being discussed. I was the new...

Montville Citizens Awards 2022

Montville's Australia Day Awards recipients 2022 Jim Cox - Montville Citizen of the Year 2022 Jim Cox being presented the Montville...

Montville Camellia Festival 1982 – 2014

by Louise Tasker Who doesn’t adore the camellia? This beautiful, sometimes blowsy, always bountiful blossom is the kind of flower that...

Max and Catherine Standage

Max and Catherine, 2022 Max Standage and Catherine Norton were both born in the South Island of New Zealand. Max’s ancestors...

History of Montville Precinct – School of Arts Hall and Village Green

Early settlement of Montville Timber getters knew of the rich source of cedar in the area before the Colony of Queensland was created in...

Bev and Des McCulloch

Des arrived in Montville in 1953 as a 14-year-old with his parents who had bought a pineapple farm on the southern side of Western...

Australia Day Address 2024 - From Kindness

Address delivered by Wayne Parcell PSM, President of the Montville Village Association Inc on Australia Day, 26 January 2024, at...

Vale Dr Michael Leo Simpson

1959 to 2023 Montville Citizen of the Year, 2007 and Montville Lifetime Citizen, 2022. When Michael graduated in medicine in 1991, he...