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The Munt families, having been longstanding inhabitants of Wheatley, and the surrounding districts, were represented at the elections in 1908 for a seat on The Urban District Council. Their involvement in the day to day decision making on the council is both well documented and an interesting insight into the social conditions and life at that time.
‘At a meeting of The Urban District Council of Wheatley held in the infant schoolroom Wheatley on the 27th April 1908’
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A. Welch. esq .................... Mr Charles Shepherd
Mr Edward Walker.................. Mr Joseph W Rose
Mr Frederick Towler .................Mr William Dennis
Mr Herbert Munt ............................Mr James Munt
Mr William Dennis, Mr Herbert Munt and Mr James Munt, three of the newly elected councillors made the usual declaration on taking office’.
(Both councillor Munts regularly attended council meetings, the minutes of which, give us a good insight into the workings of a local council, and the minutae of a small Oxfordshire village at the beginning of the last century).
November 30th 1908
‘Tenders for the supply of a horse and a man were received as follows:
J Shepherd 5-/ 0-0 per day
George Stayton 5-/ 0-0 per day
Edwin Stanley 5-/0-0 per day
‘And on the proposition of Mr James Munt, seconded by Mr Herbert Munt it was unanimously resolved that the tender of Mr Joseph Shepherd be accepted’.
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