Reducing Sunday Rowdyism – Portsmouth Evening News – Thursday, 01 July 1926

REDUCING SUNDAY ROWDYISM Sir,—ln Monday’s issue of your paper under "By the Way,” paragraph appears, Where are the police? pointing out the nuisance caused Sunday evenings by loafing young men, youths and girls, obstructing the South Parade Pier entrance. It can he added that Sunday evenings there is also great deal horseplay along the promenade from the South Parade Pier to the far end of the Canoe Lake by young people, for want of something better to do. In Tuesday's issue you report, under the heading "A boon to the Police Sunday Pictures at Bognor and Selsey,” that the application for renewal the licences for kinematograph performances at the Pavilion, Selsey, the Police Superintendent declared that the opening of kinemas at Bognor Sunday evenings had been a boon to the police, as young people who had nothing to do were a source of annoyance, and there had been great improvement from this point of view on Bognor Esplanade. You thus have the answer as to how an intolerable nuisance can any rate mitigated, if not entirely cured, provided that our killjoys will only take a reasonable view of present times and not be so wrapped in the past. —Yours faithfully, " MANY YEARS RESIDENT.” Southsea, June 30.