DISPUTE OVER Is 2d

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 5 December 1929, Page 7

DISPUTE OVER Is 2d

AMOUNT NOW PAID MR POLSON AND COUNTY ALLEGATION OF INSOLENCE'. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) DANNEVIRKE, Dec. 5. The incident between Mr W. J. Poison, M.l’., and the Dannevirke County Council over the payment of Is 2d for a telegram sent “coifieet reply” to request* by Mr Poison for information wiais concluded to-day, when the amount in dispute was received from Mr Poison with the following covering letter to the council’s lady Oivrk: “Your former communication could be forgiven on the ground of ignorance. Out your last is insolent and shows plainly, that the slight put upon me was intended. Let me correct you: Members ot Parliament do not get their telegrams franked, and the stanipage allowance does not pay niy bureau calls. 1 fail to see \Vlrat my salary has to do wistlh .that matter. " You receive a salary as clerk of the Dannevirke County, but you. wouikl certainly resent it if I sent you a ‘collect’ telegram. dealing with county matters.” The county chairman (Mr A. Galloway) defended the clerk against the charge of insolence, saying: “I think tlni.t it is Mr Poison who has turned insolent.” The other members strongly resented the attack on the county clerk, and Mi' Prison’s letter was received.