SLIGHT ON MR POLSON WAS INTENDED HE SAYS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 44, 5 December 1929, Page 5

SLIGHT ON MR POLSON WAS INTENDED HE SAYS

LETTER TO DANRtVIRKE / COUNTY! CLERK A MATTER OP ONE AND TWO*k ' r PENCE. COiINTT COUNCIL UP IN ARMS. Press Association— Copyright. I, DANNEVIRKE, This Day. The incident between Mr W. J. .Poison, M.P., and the Danpevirke County Council over the payment of one and twopence for a telegram sent collect In reply to requests by >Mr Poison for information was concluded to-day, whun, the amount in 'dispute was received from Mr Poison with the following covering letter to thei Council’s lady clerk:—

“Your former communication could be forgiven on the ground of ignorance, hut 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 stampage 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 Coum.ty hut you will certainly tesent it if I sent your a collect telegram dealing with county matters.”

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