UNSIGHTLY HOARDINGS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19178, 8 December 1927, Page 8

UNSIGHTLY HOARDINGS.

A WAIREWA COMPLAINT. A letter from the Wairewa County Council seeking the co-operation of thu Progress League in the direction of urging the Government to consent to the removal of unsightly hoardings in the county came before the league executive last night. Mr F. Coop said that the county was very 6ore about the matter, and hoped that the league would do its utmost to get the Government to alter its policy regarding hoardings. Mr P. R. Climie, organiser of the loague, said that it had been, suggested that a working bee equipped with brushes and tar might do a lot of good so far as hoardings were concerned. Mr F. W. Freeman said that the owners of the signs had intimated to the Canterbury Automobile Association that there was every possibility of their early removal. The league was more or less impressed with the desirability of removing unsightly hoardings, and the president (Mr J. E. Strachan) added that no hoardings were allowed to disfigure the countryside in Honolulu, as he had learned during his recent visit to Hawaii. In fact, it was the practioe there to paint even telegraph poles, to blend with the landscape. It was decided to support the request.