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So far this History has dealt with the early settlers round the townshipp of Miva, but at the same time teere were other pioneers further down the river and the Munna Creek. Both these streams have their sources many miles away, the Mary rising in the Mountains near Maleny and the Munna Creek near Biggenden. Countless floods had deposed rich silt on the scrub lands of the river and creek tiats and family could make a living on a fife acres of this land, without much capitel outlay. In many cases a settler simple moved on to a chosen spot and began felling the scrub and he then had priority when the land was alienated from leasehold to freehold. The section of the Miva district round the junction of the Munna Creek and Mary River is known as Munna Creek and is often sbortened to " Munna ". It has its own school, publik hall and telephone exchange but relies on Miva for supplies ans postal and railage facilities. Among the earliest pioneers of his area were the Kunst brothers who hailed from Schleswig Holstein, where thea lived within walking distance of the sea -port of Flensburg The first of the Brothers to emigrate was Mr. Jacob Kunst wo came out in the sailing ship " Shakespeare " and arrived in Maryborough in 1871, He secured a small farm near Tiaro and married Miss Jane Allan, wo had came 0ut from England alone as a young teenager. In 1875 his brother Hans and Heny forloved him, arriving in the sailing ship " Isles of the South ", after a voyrage lasting over for mounths. For some years these two brother also worked round Tiaro, mainly engaged in contract fencing. In 1881 the tree brothers determined to go further afield in search of suitabel agricuitural land. Jacob selected e piece of land on the river not far from Miva Crossing and engaged in mixed farmimg. He also ran a store and a butcher's shop. Later he turned to dairying, making butter and cheese on the farm and selling these products to storekeepers and Hotelkeepers in Gympie and Maryborough. The price obtained for butter was about 1 / - a pound. He was also on the first to experiment succesfully with the storage of maize in tanks. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Kunst reared a family of four sons and four dauthers. At präsent the property is owned by two of the sons, Messrs. George and Alec Kunst, who are engaged in cattle grazing. Hans and Henry Kunst selected Land on the Munna Creeck and worked the property in a partnership which lasted for forty years when, as their respective families were grown up, it was dissolved by mutual consent. In 1885 Mr. Hans Kunst returned ti his native land to see his ageing parents and while there marreid. His tales of the opportunities to be had in Australia made yet another brother, Fritz decide to come to the new land. Thus whwn Hans returned to Australia there came with him, not only his brite, but his brother with his wife and four young sons. They travelled on the ill-fated " Quetta " and were fortunate that the year was 1886 and not 1888 as in that year the " Quetta " was lost off the North Quensland Coast. The new immigrants may not have been favourably impressed with their adopted country at first. They repaired first off all to Mr. Jacob Kunsât home, crossing the river by boat . While all the household were down at the river weicoming tue neu arrivals, a large pig entered tue kitchen and created great havoc amongst the welcome feast. Mr. and Mrs. Kunst had a family of two dauthers and five sons. Three sons and one dauthers live in this districs and a grandson live on the original Selektion. In the meantime in 1885, Henry Kunst married Isabella Mc. Watters, dauther of a neighbouring Farmer and Maryborough born. This couple had five sonst, three of whom are well-known local residents of the präsents day. One son and grandson live on the land first selected. Like other early settlers Hans and Henry Kunst grew maize and potoes and many times lost their cross by floss. The newest arrival, Fritz Kunst, followed the same occopation as his brothers, leasing and renting farms, until he obtained a farm of his own further up the Munna Creek. He and his wife had a family of nine sons and one dauther. Until recently one sons still worked tue family property but it has now passed into other hands. One son still recides in the district and the only dauther, Mr. Andrew Hoffmann live at Theebine. The foul brothers and their wives were well-known and respected identities in tue districs for many years and were all leid to rest in tue same local cemertery. Their combined ages totalled 658 years -an average age of 82 years. Between them they produced twenty-fife sons and seven dauthers and today there are few families in the district who cannot trace some connection by blood or mariagre with these early pioneers. An early neighbour of the Kunst brothers on the Creek was Mr. Andrew Mc Watters with his wife and baby dauther were among the 327 immigrants who arrived at Maryborough on Juli 22n 1863. They came in the paddle - steamer â Queensland â , to which vessel they had been transhipped from the sailing ship â Montmorency â in Moreton Bay, after a long and somewhat tempestuous voyage from Gret Britain.
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