Hinterland Stories

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

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Written in Stone

by Gordon Plowman (2021) The pillars either side of the Montville Memorial Gate pay tribute to the fallen and those who served during...

Leonie Gittins 1949 to 2024

Leonie’s creativity, resilience and strength led her to become a leading member of a wide range of communities on the Sunshine Coast

Montville’s Rejects

Montville has had a unique Australian attraction for the past century. Secluded in the village is a war memorial which publicly reveals...

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 Citizen of the Year Records

The Montville Citizen of the Year Award was first instituted in 1990. The Montville Lifetime Citizenship Award was instituted in 2015....

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...

Jocelyn Bannister – A Montville Lifetime Citizen

Jocelyn Bannister selling raffle tickets at St Mary’s Hall NO matter where Jocelyn Bannister goes in the future, she will always be a...

Dawne Barnett – A Life Well-Lived

Dawne Barnett, who recently passed away (2018), at the age of 94, was born on 7 September 1924. Her father George Brown was a...

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...

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...

Vale Carolyn June Frost

On 30 April 2021, Montville lost one of its long serving members of the Montville Ladies Social and Benefit Club. Although Carolyn was...