SHORTAGE OF GARAGES?

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 117, 19 May 1937, Page 10

SHORTAGE OF GARAGES?

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—After reading letters appearing in "The Post", concerning shortage of garages, I, as owner of a vacant garage, would like to relate .my experience. I am the owner of a'house and garage, and as my teniht did not possess a car, I undertook to let the garage separately and posted up a notice to the effect that the garage was to let at 5s per week, yet in spite of the fact that the garage (a concrete one, 19ft x 10ft) had cost me £135 to, build and that I was also paying £4 12s annually to the City Council for road reservation rental, this garage was vacant for over nine months. A few weeks ago I received a letter from the owner of a car telling me that 5s weekly i rental was exorbitant, and offering me 3s 6d per week. As I couldn't see the rea-1 son why I should pay interest on £ 135, j also road rental in addition, for the benefit of other people, my correspondent still parks his car on the roadside. Possibly other garage owners have had similar experiences.—-I am, etc., • ■;: ~-■ .GARAGE-.OWNER. ' Additional letters, on the widely-discussed question of military training; are published on pa ß e 12. ■