NO MORE BANNERS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20001, 28 July 1939, Page 4

NO MORE BANNERS

MAIN ROAD ADVERTISING POWER HOARD'S STAND A decision which is practically a prohibition on banner advertising displays in the main street of Gisborne was made by the Poverty Bay Electric • Power Board to-day, when, the board agreed that apart from exceptional eases n'o more banners would bo fixed to the board's poles. This follows a similar stand taken by the Post and Telegraph Department. so that those bodies desiring to erect such .banners in future will have nothing to which to attach their displays, even when, the permission of the GiJborne Borough Council is secured to make such displays.

At to-day’s meeting of the board, the engineer, tMr. F. Matthewson. expl'aincci that the wind pressure on the banner caused the beard's pale to sway, and with the heavy cables he wa,s erecting in Gladstone road there was a likelihood of them becoming twisted. Itiw'as resolved that except in exceptional circumstances, and then only with the prior permission 'of the finance committee or the board, the practice of tying banners to the board’s poles be *:iot permitted.

Mr. 11. 11. Do Costa: That means that even if the Borough Council gave permission to erect a banner, it cannot be done because our poles cannot be used.