DISTURBING CHIMES.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17419, 1 April 1922, Page 5

DISTURBING CHIMES.

(FROM OTTR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) SYDNEY, March 25. Visitors to Sydney, if they happen to be lodging within a radius of a mile or two of the General Post Office, are nightly disturl>ed by the loud dhimes peaiod by tiie Post Giuee cluck at intervals oi fifteen minutes, fcyuney residents a!ei> coiiipuun tiiat aie unaljio to become accusiomed to tno quai-ter-huur disturbances, and tiiat waiieml nigbta aro too IrLquent. A demand tiiut something siiouiU be dune to stop tiio noise has raised a controversy. iSouie contend that the musical announcements of the postage of time are desiraole; otuiera reiuse to regaid Uie regular bursts of meiody as unytnmg but an unnecessary nerve-trying noise. Tne Postmucter-'Ueneral lias Men called upon to adjudicate. A conscientious investigator, Ah' I'oynton went to cm hotel near the post oilice when ho visited Sydney recently, 'ihe fcliowing day he shifted. As a.l Min>sttTs snouid, ho forthwith. called lor a report, althougn he had. quic-Kiy made up ms own mind as to whether or not tne clock should be permitted to chime the whole night through. It is now proposed tJtat a''silencer" should be applied at 11 o'clock or midnight, and released when the milkman makes his rounds. Although the question is still "under consideration," there is every prospect that shortly, should anybody in Sydney seek sleep, they will not bo denied it bv the music in the tower.