FOURTEEN PENCE PAID.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 288, 5 December 1929, Page 11

FOURTEEN PENCE PAID.

COUNTY COUNCIL'S DEMAND, MR. rOLSON'S PARTING SHOT. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DANNEVIRKE, this day. The dispute between Mr. W. J. Poison. M.P., and the Dannevirke County Council over the payment of 1/2 for a telegram which was sent "collect" hi reply to a request by Mr. Poison for information, ended to-day, when the amount in dispute was received from Mr. Poison. Mr. Poison sent the following letter to the county clerk, who is a woman:— "Your former communication could be forgiven on the ground of ignorance, but your last is insolent, and shows plainly that jhe slight put upon me was intended. Let me correct you. Members of Parliament do not get their telegrams franked, and stampage allowance does not pay my bureau calls. I fail to see what my salary has to do with the matter. You receive a salary as clerk of the Dannevirke County, but you would certainly resent if I sent you a collect telegram dealing with conty matters."

The county chairman, Mr. A. Galloway, defended-the clerk against the charge of insolence, saying, "I think it is Mr. Poison who has turned insolent." Other members strongly resented the attack on the clerk. Mr. Poison's letter was ' -received.' .