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Hinterland Stories
Sharing the memories of Montville, Flaxton, Balmoral and Hunchy.
If you would like to share your own stories, please get in touch with us.


Oops!
An entertaining tale of how an early Montville Councillor organised his transport home from Nambour.


Montville Firsts
Posted by Cate Patterson on Mar 3, 2019 This is a history record that everyone can contribute to by either challenging a claim or adding...


Horse-Slide Transport now Historic Epic
From Nambour Chronicle and North Coast Advertiser (Qld.: 1922 – 1954), Friday 26 November 1954, page 5 By T.H.Brown. In the process of...


Farming Recollections by Rob Muirhead
Rob Muirhead recalls growing up on his Dad’s Farm I received a rifle for my 12th birthday with the instructions from Dad that “anything I...


Ernest Jones Burnett – an early selector
Nambour Chronicle and North Coast Advertiser (Qld. 1922 – 1954), Friday 29 March 1940, page 1 Buderim Pioneering Days Recalled. THE LATE...


Early Transport – Rob Muirhead Remembers
Rob Muirhead was born on 10/10/1910. My first memories of transport to Palmwoods was by wagon drawn by four horses. On the forward trip,...


Building a Community – Les and Margaret Farmer
Frederick Leslie (Les) Farmer was born in 1929 out of wedlock. Back then that was tough! In 1944, at age 15 his Dad (Frederick Leslie...


Montville Place Names – The Other Road
The Story Behind the Name - Western Avenue Cutting the Main Road and Western Avenue Intersection Butts Road First Nation people of the...
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