It's a mystery

WHY WOULD SOMEONE tear out a complete article from the 1930 bound volume of Taxation? I know it's a problem that libraries sometimes have when people can't be bothered to make notes or take a photocopy but this is the Taxation office's own bound volume which has been sitting on our shelves for the past 75 years.
The article I was looking for was the one reporting the foundation of the Institute of Taxation (as it then was). One of the founders was Ronald Staples also the founding editor of this magazine so I knew he would have reported it. Sure enough it was there in the index pages 273 and 274 from the 11 January 1931 issue but the pages were missing. Close examination showed the remains of the pages that had been torn out still bound in at the spine.
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