STORM IN TEA CUP
MR POLSON’S TELEGRAM. (Per Press Association.) DANNEVIRKE, December 5. The incident between Mr Polson, M.P,. and the Dannevirke County Council, over the payment of one and twopence for a telegram sent collect, in reply to requests by Mr Polson for information, concluded to-day, when the amount in dispute was received from Mr Polson with the following covering letter to the Council’s lady clerk: — “Your former communication could be forgiven on the ground of ignorance, but your last is insolent, and shows plainly that the slight put upon me was intended. Let me correct you. Members of Parliament do not get their telegrams franked, and the stamping allowance does not pay my bureau calls. I fail to see what my salary has to do with the matter. You received a salary as clerk of the Dannevirke County, but you would certainly resent it if I sent you a collect telegram dealing with County matters?” The County Chairman (Mi - A. Galloway) defended the clerk against the charge of insolence saying: “I think it is Mr Polson who has turned insolent.” Other members strongly resented the attack on the County clerk, and Mr Polson’s letter was received.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 5 December 1929, Page 8
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