NIGHT TENNIS
VOGUE IN SYDNEY.
(From Our Own Corr*»pond«nt.)
SYDNEY, 19th August.
Municipal councils are implorod at different times to abate all sorts of nuisances. Perhaps it is a rooster, which breaks the sleep of citizens with \ts chanticleer call, or a yelping dog, or something often as bad, if not worse, a musical evening, or a gramophone. There are now vigorous complaints about night tennis. It has become so popular as to become a nuisance iit some of the suburbs. The complaint is made that tennis is now played until 11 o'clock an< even later at night, with the attendant noise and glare of lights Which give to the courts and their surroundings all the brightness of day. The councils have the power to control the use of premises so as to prevent objectionablo noises, or noises at unreasonable hours. The power, although wide, is indefinite. So far tho local Court.'! have given no guide as to what can bo classed as "objectionable noises" or "unreasonable hours," but it is considered probable that an embargo on the playing of tennis after 10 o'clock at night would bo within the section.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 53, 31 August 1926, Page 9
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191NIGHT TENNIS Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 53, 31 August 1926, Page 9
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