TITHES DISPUTE
STAND BY FARMERS REFUSE TO ATTEND CHURCH LONDON, January 28. English farmers are renewing their fight against the tithe laws. This week, following an adress given at Battle, near Hastings, by a Methodist minister, the Rev. Neville Kedward, farmers in East Sussex resolved not to go to church until the tithe laws are abolished.
The farmers’ resolution will not make much difference, however, as practically every farmer in the district has already broken away from the Church of England, and in many country parishes not one farmer ever attends services, even those who once were ardent churchmen.
The farmers are now to fight the tithe laws by refusing to pay, and by refraining to vote for any parliamentary candidate who does not promise to oppose the law, which they allege is ruining farmers all over the country.
East Sussex farmers contend that one of the biggest anomalies in connection with tithes is the imposition of hoptithes—an extra tax on land which was used for hop-growing. To-day, in many cases, farmers are compelled by law not to grow hops on that land, and yet the church still demands the hop-tithe.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21280, 25 February 1939, Page 7
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191TITHES DISPUTE Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21280, 25 February 1939, Page 7
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