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PROTEST OF IRISH FARMERS. TITHE DISPUTE RENEWED. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Dublin, Sept. 6. After a truce, due to a local cricket match, a tithe dispute at Ashford in an extraordinary way renewed itself. Farmers and their wives and daughters prostrated themselves before lorries conveying oats seized for tithes. Appeals, screams and shouts of the civilians and police increased the turmoil. The lorry-drivers entered a potato field in order to avoid the prostrate farm folk, who then mildly pursued the tones, which were forced to stop until the police removed a heavy w’aggon impeding their exit from a field, allowing the lorries to depart
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 September 1934, Page 12
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