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    Mr* Harmon: #3 <3tflLy 10, 1935* city ordtnanee to prohibit a&eh mate, and it doesn’t cost the gellty party any more Mother ho uses a hundred gallons or tan thousand* :I#t have don®- about all w# can to heap abreast of the tsapending water shortage* and Z.'an ashing your kindly assists me. either an Ohalraau of the labile dervloe Co®- or im a iwraooal m i , to forcibly disroot to the attention of ite- .city authorities th? necessity for adopt-' ing a city ordinance to prohibit waste of water* hast year the pm? capita consumption here daring doily and -August reached over, 500 gall mss per day, and a similar msrsstricted drain this year will eodsmst the reservoir* I am enclosing copy of the emergency ordinance passed last year, the provisions of which did not harm any- one bat m the oiher Hand asm lied what threatened to he a had situation, SSecs-ra* Knickerbocker - assd Bennett axe cordnir up from loa Angeles within- a few days to sceomptany m before the city officials for a candid discus si on of conditions eontributii® to the water shortage here,'and 1 will certain­ly appreciate it if you also will handle the matter in the m y you judge t© he best* flth kindest personal regards, X am Since roly yours,