NO COMPLAINTS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 250, 13 June 1932, Page 2

NO COMPLAINTS

BRIGHT SPOTS IN LIFE OF NEW ZEALAND M.P. RAISES UNCERTAINTY. In a letter to a friend recently a member of Parliament gives a very clear idea of the trials and troubles that beset the people's representatives when they return to their electorates espeeially after a session sueh as has just ended. "Since coming down," he says, "I have looked upon every man as a potential enemy. All that I meet have a grievance; either I have reduced their pensions or have pulled down interest that they were receiving, the only means they had of keeping body and soul together, and several other sins of omission and commission. "Howevex*, oue day recently I was sending a wire to Wellington when a man came up and spoke to be. 'Well, how are things going?' "The reply was 'Spendid, am getting along well.' "I replied, 'What! Haven't you got a growl?" " 'No,' he said, 'not one.' "So I shook hands with him and toki him that he was the first man I had met since I left Wellington who did not express in more or less definite terms that I should be lynch- j ed. When the man went out I saicl to the postmaster, 'That's a decent ; sort of fellow. Who is he? 'Oh!' ! he replied, 'he is an inmate of the i mental home. Not a very bad case : so they allow him to do the messages.' | "I stood and pondered, wondering j if some, of those in mental homes j should not be out, and some of the | outs in." i 1 1