The second paragraph of the tale entitled mayoral Wine was omitted in our recent publication Tall Tales and True - Maybe, so if you were wondering where the humour was it's here in the second paragraph.
Please have a read and enjoy the lighter side of Montville's history.
Tall Tales and True – Maybe – p21 Mayoral Wine
Another model Montville citizen was famous for his wines. William (Bill) Harvey was Montville’s first politician. His home boasted a cricket ground and a tennis court and hosted many community sporting events. He was on the Executive of the powerful Fruit Growers Association, Chairman of the Patriotic Committee, Founding Master of the Freemason Lodge of Montville and the First Chairman of the Maroochy Shire Council, which met in Nambour.
Bill would regularly take his homemade wine along to Council Meetings where many standing orders attested to its popularity. Bill didn’t own a car and the roads were very rudimentary, so he had to rely on ‘horse’ power to attend meetings. He solved this problem by issuing a challenge. Anyone who could climb the Montville Range in second gear would win a bottle of his wine – of course Bill would have to be in the car to verify the results. Tommy Cheetham, in a 1923 Studebaker, was the first man to win the challenge but many more followed and Bill ended up having 100s of rides home – for a bottle of orange wine.
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