Candid Politics

The Atoll Pioneer, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, reports the following incident during a House of Assembly debate: “The member from Nanumea decided he had had enough of the Ministers, so he stood up at the middle of a speech by another member and he told the Minis ter for Natural Resources that he was not the boss in the meet ing, the Speaker was. When he was interrupted the man from Nanumea sat down and sighed: T’m sorry Sir, I’ve lost my mind’.”