12/17/2022 0 Comments Chris brown run it chris bullen remixAnd he got down into a cow paddock and there was no way of getting him out so I had to walk right back to Hunchy with him to get him out to come up back to school. And there was barbed wire fences When he jumped he jumped far enough out, fortunately not to catch the barbed wire. And when I come to get me pony, he had got a fright and he had jumped over the gorge, over the embankment and of course it was very steep. So it made it very hard for a little while. HOWARD: Well it was, 'cause I thought it was going to come down on me and what was I going to do because the horses weren't being controlled you see. One horse had to be shot because his legs got broken and one of the shafts went through him. And then the six horses down there in a mess with the team. Oh there was fruit all the way down the Range you know dispersed everywhere. Only the poor team could not make that bend and it went down over, it didn't come to me, it went over the bend. And it wasn't very wide so I jumped off my pony and climbed the bank and let the pony go. Then I seen all the horses careering, and there were six horses in the team with a big wagon of fruit behind them. HOWARD: Yes, six, they were fruit carrying from Montville and I heard this terrible thing coming. Iwas riding the Range, it were only narrow and I was riding the Range and this runaway team, the brakes had given away. I had some nice times there and some touchy times riding the Range. And then I rode the Range everyday to school. But Hunchy was the Post Office at the time. HOWARD: Well it was down from Hunchy, further down from Hunchy. SB: So was the farm half-way down the Range? I rode to Montville to my school days up the old Blackall Range. And of course that's where I went to Montville. It wasn't like it is today-to travel overseas, they just come in the old slow boats didn't they? Then of course when we left Bega, we had a small farm in Bega, but then there was a chappie in Bega that wanted him (father) to take on one of his half-shares up here. So of course she never got overseas at all. Because he then lived in Sydney all his life and they hadĪ family of three. Of course my uncle that married my father's sister, he was a great cabinet-maker and he got a job cabinet making in Sydney and I think that's what kept him here. SB: So after your father came to Australia and met your mother what attracted them to this area of Australia? Well I think as far as I can understand the courtship really started in Denmark. He was really from Denmark but he came out, I don't know when he came out. HOWARD: Well he went for a visit to New Zealand, over the continent. SB: How did his sister meet her husband? How did your father's sister meet the man she married? HOWARD: That's how she wanted it but she - it was her request that he travelled with his sister out to Australia. And when they got married, his mother wrote and said, "Well your place is here now, in Australia with your wife and family." So that was how my grandmother looked at it, you know. And that's how that happened and of course he never went back. He wanted to be at her wedding so he brought her out. HOWARD: Yes I do, because he travelled out with his sister, because she was going to get married out here. SB: Do you know why he came to Australia from Denmark? Seventy-two years ago and that was when he (father) came to Queensland. SB: How old were you when you came to the area? Image: Montville State School pupils and teachers wearing fancy dress on Peace Day, Montville, 1918.Ĭhris Howard oral history - part one Ĭhris Howard oral history - part two Ĭhris Howard oral history - part three Ĭhris Howard oral history - part four She talks about dairy farming, school at Montville, snake bite, pineapple farming, dances and balls. Chris was born in 1906 from a Danish family.
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