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NIBBLING AT THE PARKS
It is not surprising that the proposal to lease the corner of Hyde Park fronting on Elizabeth and Liverpool streets to a private concern which will adorn it with a buck jumping arena has already met with strong criticism.
There are many in Sydney who view with alarm the continual encroachments on the city’s open spaces. Buck jumping shows are a most excellent form of entertainment, but they have their proper place, and that place is not a park which has been reserved in the middle of Sydney as a lung for the city and is an oasis in a desert of bricks and mortar where our citizens can take their pleasure. In this particular case it has been argued that the public will suffer no real prejudice.
The Sydney Morning Herald, 16 December 1920
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