MR KIRKWOOD’S CHRISTMAS CARD.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 97, 24 December 1913, Page 5

MR KIRKWOOD’S CHRISTMAS CARD.

[To The Editor. Stratford Post. )

Sir,—Mr Robert Masters has not iu any way attempted to controvert the statements made in my last loiter, but instead has taken a column and a half, “playing with words, or rather phrases.” It is singular chat the advice Mr Masters is anxious to give others is particularly good advice for himself to profit by. bio writes ‘‘but for goodness sake lot us have no cant about it.’ Lndoubtedly good advice; then let Mr Masters drop all cant and not pose as an apostle working for the good of tae County ratepayers. As chairman oi the Electrical Supply Company, in bis advocacy of the issue of a license to tire Company tie is working entirely in the interests of the Company, and the more he writes on tiro subject, tire more is this apparent. Ihe Count} ratepayers would indeed be simple it they could be gulled into the belief that Mr Masters has any particular thoughts for their welfare on the question of the issue of a license from the Public Works Department. ' Further on Mr Masters writes: “No man, not even Mr Kirkwood and Mr Richards, can be a judge in bis own cause.” Quite so, and good advice again for Mr Masters to act upon. If the license is issued, Mr Masters and the Company have everything ko gain, whereas those opposing the license have nothing to gain one way or the other, so that we may fairly claim to be disinterested. Having told MiMasters through the press that the delegates did not oppose the issue ol a license to the County, his continual harping on this point is, to say the least, ungenerous. Towards the end of his letter, Mr Masters* speaks of prejudice and bad feeling. If such exists, then it must be with Mr Masters himself, as 1 have no bad feeling jor illwill against the Company and have never bad any cause for such; further, I have not on any occasion run counter to the Company, except where the interests of the ratepayers and the Company have clashed. The whole question is a business one, and should be treated as such, wihout any had feeling being engendered, although at times plain speaking may be necca sarv, —1 am, etc., . • w. P. kirkwood; ~ , . Mayor.