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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17937, 4 December 1923, Page 8

Probably ensuing from the Davis Cup competitions, a lawn tennis craze envelops' Sydney. Clubs have been formed in hundreds in and around the city, and in every suburb playing grounds are being mad© with such celerity and in such numbers that a j tram or train journey seems to disclose j to view one long series of excavations and tall skeleton fences. Night ten- | nis is also very popular, and profitable I to boot, very substantial incomes being J made by court builders where electricity is available. As to these latter, a question has been raised whether they are within the municipal law in residential areas. A tennis ground having two or three courts, and fre«J qi'ented by large numbers of people who are not dumb, is obviously not a residence; where to the playing area are added dressing-sheds and semikiosks in which refreshments may be partaken, it tends to become a public recreation ground. What may happen in that case is not clear, but a line j will have to be drawn between residential and commercial occupation i purposes. I

Infectious and other notifiable diseases reported in the Canterbury Westland Health District for the week ended noon yesterday totalled 21, as follows: —Westland: Tuberculosis, 1. Grey: Diphtheria, 2; pneumonic influenza, 1. North Canterbury: Scarlet fever, 4; tuberculosis, 2; puerperal fever, 2; pneumonic influenza, 1; pneumonia, 2; erysipelas, 1; ophthalmia neonatorum, 1; hydatids, 1. Ashburton: Tuberculosis, 2. South Canterbury: Diphtheria, 1.