TENNIS BY NIGHT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19417, 27 August 1926, Page 14

TENNIS BY NIGHT.

" NUISANCE " IN SYDNEY. COMPLAINTS TO COUNCILS.' [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] SYDNEY.Aug.It). Municipal councils are implored at different times to abate all sorts of nuisances. Perhaps it is a rooster which breaks the sleep of citizens with its 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 in some of the suburbs. The complaint is made that tennis is now played until 11 o'clock and 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 objectionable noises, or noises at unreasonable hours. The power, although wide, is indefinite. So far the local courts have given rio guide as to what can he classed as "objectionable noises" or "unreasonable hours," but it is considered probabic tnat an embargo on the playing of tennis after 10 o'clock at night would be within the section.