SPOILING THE SCENERY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20107, 29 November 1939, Page 10

SPOILING THE SCENERY

BILLBOARDS AND SIGNS MENACE TO SAFETY Although Now Zealanders find much cause to protect against some of the roadside hoardings which spoil views of soenery, the evil is not yet as exasperating as it is in America. Here is some terse editorial comment of the Florida Magazine:—

“Just how long are the people of Florida going to allow their .beautiful highway and traffic thoroughfares to he cluttered up with nondescript signs nd billboards? Big ones, little ones! Old ones! Ugly ones! Glaring, screaan'ig billboards! Ragged, battened and mt signs. They leer at you from ees and yell at you from ditches—- ’ ey come rushing at you from over

e hilltops and gnaw at your vitals

im around curves—steam heated . . . er pills . . . inner spring . . . baffle s . . . b-o tonic . . . the whatis hotel . squirma shav . . , and by the time i’ve gone a few miles your head is such a whirl trying to ignore the oxious things and keep from read- ■ them, .that before you know it you t dodging them as if they were „ ng toward you.

Billboards and signs on the highvs are a menace to safety and a e on our virgin forests and broad '.scapes. Besides that, they are a vasty on the intelligence of the mican people. Everywhere you hese glaring illegitimate children he graphic ants are practically •:med down your throat’ in , a ner that is most distasteful to an ■iligent person."