Gardens trampled by tennis players

Press, 31 May 1977, Page 42

Gardens trampled by tennis players

Some Christchurch tennis players have been a bit careless when retrieving balls from properties adjoining Wilding Park. Mr H. Dillon, the chairman of the Canterbury Lawn Tennis Association’s grounds committee, asked delegates at their quarterly meeting last evening to ensure that club members sought permission before going to find lost balls. “Our neighbours have complained that when people go to get balls back they don’t ask and then trample all over the vegetable gardens,” he said. The other side of the coin was that in one part of the park residents’ cars were spraying stones over the courts, and dogs were "playing on the courts and doing other things." A motion was put to the delegates by the Edgeware club that the second women’s grade be

regraded to senior reserve to make it a better stepping stone to senior status. The motion was lost 15-20. Mr C A. Hunt, the chairman of the ' management committee, reported that arrangements for a Canterbury veterans’ tournament were well under way and it would be held on "Waitangi Day or New Zealand Day, whatever it’s going to be called this year.” At the management committee meeting, which followed the delegates’ meeting, Messrs Hunt and Dillon were appointed as the association’s delegates to the annual meeting of the national body next month. There was some suggestion that raffles be discontinued as a means of raising funds, but Mr Dillon said that "if we don’t have a raffle we’ll have to thump the affiliation fee."