WHY THE WOLF CRY?

Evening Star, Issue 16677, 8 March 1918, Page 4

WHY THE WOLF CRY?

TO THE ICDITOE. Sir. —I noticed in your recent issue that tho Town Clerk is threatening ratepayers witli pains and penalties it they persist in watering their gardens. What about the bowling greens and the cricket pitches that I see being continuously watered far into the night, and, for all that 1 know to the contrary, all night long? True, the howling and cricket clubs arc charged by meter; hut is it to be always a case of p.fluids, shillings, and pence? Is not ray cabbage patch as much an “essential” industry tor the support of my bairns as any branch of sport ? 1 claim to be a sportsman myself; but I confess that I am of opinion that we have far too much of that kind of thing during those strenuous times. But, apart from that consideration, I would like tho ratepayers to think seriously about the pass to winch we are reduced when, after a fortnight's continuous tine weather, we arc threatened by tho authorities with a possible water famine! Is that the logical outcome of hundreds of thousands of pounds spent on reservoir construction and in providing water schemes that were to supply tho wants of jOO,OOO people for a century? What a vn.?h difference between promise and actual performance.—l am; etc., .Rir Yax Winkle. March 8.