PAYMENT OF TITHES.
POLICE SEIZE CHICKENS. After an arduous day, 20 policemen arrested a pair of chickens as the net result of raiding eight Kent farms with the object of collecting goods from tithe defaulters distrained upon by Merton College, which owns the right of the tithes (says a London message. The force, under the leadership of two officers, a solicitor and a bailiff, mobilised at dawn, and hid in a variety of vehicles. Some, were disguised as farm workers. All scoured the countryside, but drew blanks at seven farms, where it was expected that there would be a mixed bag of livestock.
The brakes of one four ton van failed, and the vehicle careered downhill into Elham, and crashed into a lorry. Twenty constables were thrown into a ditch. The bruised constables tumbled out gallantly and endeavoured to apprehend 50 chickens on the last farm. They caught two after a desperate chase, placed them in a threeton lorry and drove triumphantly off after one had laid an egg.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 28, 30 December 1932, Page 5
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169PAYMENT OF TITHES. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 28, 30 December 1932, Page 5
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