GARDEN HOSING

Waikato Times, Volume 129, Issue 21583, 20 November 1941, Page 7

GARDEN HOSING

RESTRICTION OF HOURS PLANT AT WATERWORKS CONSERVING ELECTRIC POWER The borough engineer, Mr R. Worley. reporting at the Hamilton Borough Council meeting last night on the delays in securing needed parts for the new filter plant at the waterworks, said that now only the module control valve was needed. The water position would become acute during the coming warm weather if the fil- I ter plant could not be put into use, for since last summer four pressure filters had been disposed of in anticipation of the new plant being available. Mr Worley suggested that it would be wise, until the new plant was completed, to take steps to eliminate .-ome of the unnecessary watering of gardens. It was pointed out that the total hosing load in summer was about 1.250,000 gallons of water each day, and that this required a consumption of 2400 electrical units. Ample Justification Thus there seemed ample justification, he said, in view of the shortage of electrical energy, for the council to take some action regardless of the completion of the filter plant. There was a suggestion that the council restrict hosing to the hours between 5 and 8 p.m.. for all reasonable gardening requirements would be met by doing so. On the motion of the Mayor, Mr H. D. Caro, it was decided to restrict the hosing, except between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. Mr Worley added that it was 13 years since the people in Hamilton had been restricted in the hosing of their gardens. The only thing that had been done was to ask the people not to waste water. The matter had come before the council several times but no restriction had been imposed. If the citizens were given three hours a day to hose their gardens it should be sufficient.