TENANTS AND SHERIFF
ATTACK WITH PITCHFORKS. The estate at Glenomera, near Limerick, of Captain Charles Arthur, formerly A. D. C. to Sir Hari Singh, which is now vested in the Land Commission, was lately the scene of a two days’ conflict between tenant farmers and Free State officers. Accompanied by military and Civic Guards the Sheriff proceeded to the estate for the purpose of seizing cattle, in lieu of payment of arrears of several years’ rents, but a crowd armed with pitchforks and other farm implements resisted the endeavours of the party, the encounter resulting in sevral of the Civic Guards being assaulted. All the stock had been driven off the estate before the Sheriff arrived, and trees had been cut down, roads dug up, and bridges rendered impassable, in order to prevent a return of the Government troops. Some of the tenants, however, paid a year’s arrears, and promised, further instalments.
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 May 1925, Page 10
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152TENANTS AND SHERIFF Taranaki Daily News, 12 May 1925, Page 10
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