A CHAMBER OF RURAL HORROR'S

Hokitika Guardian, 13 December 1928, Page 5

A CHAMBER OF RURAL HORROR'S

“A recent exhibition, something in the mature of a museum of horrible example, or, as a London delegate described it, ‘a chamber of rural horrors,’ was that portion of it to which reference was made is termed in tho programme ‘examples and contrasts of the disfigurement by advertisement, building, destruction of trees and of the flora.’ Upwards of 400 photographs have been collected to show how the beauty of the countryside has been spoilt in the ways enumerated. Judging from these photographs, there can be no doubt that the chief offender is the advertisement; anti of tho advertisements, to quote tho wording under one of tho pictures, ‘tea and cigarettes are our worst flight after petrol.’ Numerous examples may be seen of stretches of beautiful road—between, for instance, Coventry and Uuncluirch, Warwick and Stratford, and near Sutton Coldfield, 'Broadway, Kenilworth—made hideous by boardings and enamelled advertisements, of famous beauty spots defiled Tty signs all cl posters, and of ancient hostclrios whose exteriors are almost hidden beneath advertisements of the beverages which may be obtained within.”— “Birminham Post.”