Tithe Kent Arrears
BRITISH FARMERS’ REVOLT
FORCED SALE A FIASCO
[By Tplegratjh—Press Association—Copyright. J
Received Sept. 25, 9.50 p.m. LONDON, Wept. 25.
Two hundred East Kent farmers poured a bucket of mud over the head of an auctioneer during a Canterbury sale to recover arrears of tithe rent, against which farmers everywhere hate rebelled. They stoned the auctioneer’s police guard.
The sale was abandoned, the auctioneer escaping in a police car.
The Daily Mail states that the total annual tithe payments in England and Wales exceeds £3,000,000, of which the parish clergy receive three-quarters, the remainder going to education and charity.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 228, 26 September 1931, Page 7
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