CORRESPONDENCE

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 145, 16 December 1933, Page 8

CORRESPONDENCE

HOSING GARDENS

(To the Editor.) Sir,—The article in Thursday's "Post" on hosing gardens was of interest to every householder in• the city and suburbs and especially to garden lovers. One cannot help forming the opinion that the City Fathers ore not interested in the conservation of the water'supply but in the securing of revenue, If the water supply is in danger all hosing of gardens should be prohibited, whether metered or not. 'As the bylaw stands it permits the wealthy individual to pour thousands oi gallons on lawns, but prohibits the poorer householder from keeping his small vegetable and flower plot alive. The cost pt meter and metering is beyond the average wage-earner. Much revenue could' be secured if the council would issue permits, costing, gay, £1 pop annum, giving the privilege of using the hoee on, say, one evening weekly'from 5 p.m. to 0 p.m., such privilege to be withdrawn and all hosing of gardens, whether metered or not, absolutely prohibited when overflow from the dams ceases. The issue of such permits would, I am sure, bring more revenue than the present method, would not mean a greater drain on the water than at present, and would bring greater respect tor the hosing bylaw.—l am, etc., SMALL SUBURBAN GARDENER,