MORE SHAKESPEARE

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 39, 29 January 1912, Page 5

MORE SHAKESPEARE

(To the Editor “Stratford Post.”) Sir,—lt is befitting; that Stratford-on-Patea should have its “Hamlet, and I greet him with 'pleasure, as he appeared in your columns on Saturday. As I see your correspondent is a good “Hamlet,” and if ho can get a good “Gravedigger” to act with him, 1 have very little doubt that between them they will be able to lay the “Ghost” of Hamlet’s father—or, rather the nightmare of Stratford's Mayor. “To be, or not to be,” is the question, 'and when the burgesses of this Shakespearian town are asked the question, the answer will be “Not to he.” With the nightmare knocked out of his head, Mr. Masters will be a wiser, even if a sadder man, and for the future it should teach him that muddling will not he tolerated by any sensible community. Trying to foist an obsolete electrical plant on the ratepayers of this Borough cannot be condemned too strongly. No doubt a sheaf of letters will he sent to you, Sir, claiming that the electrical syndicate’s business is worth the moriey, and more than agreed upon. Without going into columns of. figures, I ask, if the business is so valuable, why is the syndicate so anxious to get rid of it? If the understaking is as good as claimed, then let the syndicate retain the good thing, and see their concession out, the Borough Council in the meantime seeing to it that the light supplied is of, the voltage paid for. The Borough 'should act fairly and squarely by the syndicate, and I consider that it would be most unfair for the ratepayers to pay a paltry £13,000 (a mere drop in the ocean in these days of borrowed millions) for such an up-to-date dividend-paying concern. Shareholders in the company under re - view should guard their scrip jealously, as there can be little doubt that hungry money-grabbers will grab up all shares within reach if there is any chance of the Borough taking the concern over. However, “The Play is the thing,” and when the poll of ratepayers is taken we will see how the people take “the play.” Unless I am a false prophet the principal actors will be hissed, and the play, called the “Electrical Syndicate’s Bargain,” hooted off the hoards.—l am, etc. ’TRAGEDIAN. Stratford, January 29, 1912.