INARTISTIC ADVERTISING
DRASTIC LEGISLATION IN AUSTBALIA. An exhibition of European and American posters collected hy Mr. (J!. Lloyd .Tones was opened in Sydney last week by. Mr. J. D. Fitzgerald, M.L.C,, president of the committee in charge of the exhibition. Mr. Fitzgerald stated in the course of his remarks that he hoped thoso people who made advertising an eyesore and an offence against the civil conscience would learn something from this exhibition. As Minister for Local Government, he was going to nsk the Government during the coming session to deal with this matter very drastically. He had already appealed to the better feelings of those advertisers who defaced the landscape, and he had warned them that any legislation, would bo retrospective, and that they would have to pay for any offence in this direction, no matter how long previous. He had received nothing but offensive replies, and he now again warned them that tho Government would not tolerate having tho country disfigured by such advertisements.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 209, 23 May 1918, Page 5
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165INARTISTIC ADVERTISING Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 209, 23 May 1918, Page 5
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