BUCKET OF MUD
| KENTISH FARMERS' METHOD OF PROTESTING AGAINST I TITHE RENTS l ^ POURED OVER AUCTIONEER Rec. Sept. 25, 8.15 p.m. LONDON, Friday. [ Two hundred East Kent farmers poured a busket of mud over the head of an auctioneer who was conducting a sale for the recovery of s arrears" of tithe rent, against which ! the farmers have everywhere appealed. j They stoned the auctioneer's police : guard and the sale was abandoned. . The auctioneer escaped in a police j car. | The "Daily Mail" states that the t total annual tithe demand in Eng- ! land exceeds £3,000,000, of which the parish clergy receive three-quar-ters, the remainder going to education and charity.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 29, 26 September 1931, Page 3
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