POSTER DISFIGURATIONS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1439, 14 May 1912, Page 4

POSTER DISFIGURATIONS.

OFFENDING THE AESTHETIC. It is not unlikely that a movement will be instituted shortly by the City Council to check, if not absolutely to prohibit tho plastering of nearly every fence, blank trail, and building hoarding with playbills and other sheet advertisements,. Somo years ago thero was a fairly strict (supervision to prevent as far as possible this offenco against the aesthetic, but it has grown rapidly of late, until people are dazed by tho blaze of posters assaulting the eve in every direction. The reference is to what is technically known as "sniping," which means pasting bills wherever there is room on fences, walls, buildings, and hoardings, other than the regular and recognised places. "It would do usi no harm if the nuisance was cheeked," said , one manager who was consulted. 'Mil iact, we would be money in pocket, as wo have to get double tho number of bills printed, and take tho risk of them being pasted over, by some 'sniper* the next night. No one has any particular rights in, this regard, and tlie covering over of bills a night after they are pasted up is becoming a common thing in Wellington. This sort of thing is not permitted in Melbourne or Sydney. I think the fine now is .£5 for any management whose bills aro 'sniped' in other places than tlie regular hoardings and bill-boards. AVc have to do it now because others do, but I (lon t think tlie managers would object if the thing was checked."