THE SMALL BOY EPISODE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 7, 29 April 1914, Page 5

THE SMALL BOY EPISODE.

, [To Thb Editor Stratford Post.] Sjr,-In reply to Mr King's remarks re some person sending a small bof to the Electrical Supply Company for a list of shareholders, I wish to enlighten the ratepayers regarding the true facts. As a shareholder I have a perfect right to secure this list, and I wished this information, not as Mr King said at his meeting) to injure him," but to find but who I the people were who had the most to gain by securing this iniquitous license over the Borough. If I had wished to do anything underhand, I could easily have sent any unknown person, to get this list as.it is open to anyperson to inspect and copy. I, however, sent not a small boy, as Mr King says, but one of our office staff, with a written request to the secretary for this list. The secretary refused to give this list, accompanying ' the refusal with a most insulting remark which he subsequently withdrew. On receiving the list, I found out that instead of 5000 shares accounted for, it had only 3000, so I sent my representative back to ask if he had made any mistake, and he returned with a further number of shares. As it was still not sgatisfactory, I sent it back to get it certified to by the secretary. I might now say that the secretary further corrected this list and certified to it, and I have the list with the insertions made in the secretary's writing, and anyone interested may examine it. I might reasonably ask how this sort of information in the form Mr King de- , livers it comes from the office of the Electrical Supply Company, and also how Mr King secured the private correspondence of this Company. In reading their letters, was he fighting the Company's or the ratepayers' battles? After Mr King's emphatic words to the effect, that he was not in favor of the Company against the ratepayers, he would have been wiser if he had left this to the Company to fight.—l am, etc., J. FREDRIC. Stratford, April 29.