“HIDEOUS HOARDINGS.”

Shannon News, 17 May 1927, Page 2

“HIDEOUS HOARDINGS.”

COUNTY COUNCIL’S DISAPPROVAL

At the meeting of the Horowhenua County Council on Saturday a circular with reference to the disfigurement of roadsides and rural scenery by advertisements and hoardings was received from the Oamaru Beautifying Society, which has the promise of Mr Jh P. Lee, M.P. for Oamaru, to introduce a private bill to deal with the question. The Chairman (Cr Monk) said that on a former occasion he had made a statement and the Council had .endorsed it, that he did not agree with a lot of hideous advertisements defacing the landscape. This was a growing 6vil in New Zealand, and to some extent, he was sorry to say, it had the support of the Prime Minister, who used the excuse recently that the advertisements at present being erected all along the railways (and where they adjoined the roads) were a' source, of considerable revenue. The Chairman thought that was a weak sort of statement to make, and he believed that- this country could still be carried on without the revenue from those hideous hoardings. He moved that the Council endorse the protest of the Oamaru Beautifying Socle • ly arid support the movement to do away with unsightly hoardings. This was seconded by Cr. Kilsby and carried.