BEAUTIFYING THE ROAD
BOYCOTT SUGGESTED England is waging a strenuous campaign to eliminate offensive advertising along its highways. An organisation known as the Countryside and Footpaths Preservation National Conference is promoting the crusade, and in a letter to the Royal Automobile Club, makes the following suggestions which may be applicable to other countries: “Might we make a suggestion, which, we think, would help to preserve the amenities of the roadside in which your members are necessarily deeply Interested and -which are so seriously and Increasingly threatened? If they (members of the R.A.C.) were invited to make an Informal pledge not to buy petrol (except in absolute emergency) from any hideously disfigured or disfiguring garage, an improvement would at once he effected without serious and legitimate interests being jeopardised. Advertisers who offend do so because they feel they must—the other fellow Is doing it or will be doing it. So the vicious circle revolves. It can be broken by the simple expedient we suggest—seriously hacked by you.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 710, 9 July 1929, Page 6
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166BEAUTIFYING THE ROAD Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 710, 9 July 1929, Page 6
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