A WATER SUPPLY SELL.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2055, 24 September 1880, Page 3

A WATER SUPPLY SELL.

To the Editor of tho “ Globe.” Sib, —This high level water scheme, the official opening of which I read such a glowing description in your paper a short time ago, is a high old joke in the way of water supplies. My landlord, like a good many of his species, is a cautious man as regards making improvements for his tenants j but finding his property brought within the water supply radius, which, under the unique laws of tho Town Council, renders him liable for the water rate, whether he is a consumer or not, ho decided to lay the water in for his tenants. As this undertaking represented an outlay of several pounds sterling, with that prudence so characteristic of his kind he financed tho job by selling off tho water tanks which hod done duty up to date. The tenants, including your humble servant, who, through long training in tho tank system, had become constitutionally scrupulous in tho use of the precious fluid, now fairly “riz” with enthusiasm to the effervescing pitch at the expectation of revelling in a never-failing fountain of the pure artesian. Picture thei l- undone condition upon finding themselves high and dry from early dawn to dewy eve, excepting between the washing-tub hours of 8 a.m. to noon. Four hours out of the twenty-four is thus described a “ water supply ” —and none at all on Sundays. Really, Sir, this is, to my mind, one of the neatest institutions I have met with —a real gem in hydraulics. But my landlord tolls me that there are supplies and supplies, but the tax never varies. For example, another ratepayer, who lives a hundred yards from me, is supplied from tho low level pipes an uninterrupted stream day and night. His facilities in this respect are relatively to mine as six to one, yet it matters not, his contribution to the water account of the borough in the form of a water rate is the same. Strange equality, verily. How long the high level people will be imposed upon in this way I wont attempt to predict, but I should think it wont last far into the summer. There is no really necessity why it should be tolerated, and it should therefore bo protested against strongly. Yours, Sa o., A LYTTELTON TENANT. September 23rd.