BUILDERS' HOARDINGS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 276, 19 November 1913, Page 2

BUILDERS' HOARDINGS.

i(To the Editor.) Sir,—As a citizen of Auckland lam i surprised to note the action of the City Fathers in prohibiting the exhibition of i advertisements on builders' hoardings. I These structures are usually of the roughest undressed timber with unorthodox joints, and built on strictly utilitarian lines, with movable divisions, and in their primitive state are neither things of beauty or adornment. Their hideousness has" very wisely been saved by the bill-stickers adapting their posters to the various sections, and the result is a clean tidy hoarding ornamented with advertisements, many of which are distinctly artistic and quite unoffending to the most aesthetic. Many of the hoardings bear (lashing electric signs aud artistically painted boards and, generally speaking, their upkeep and appearance compare favourably with similar advertising hoardings in the city of Sydney I and larger cities, and it is to be hoped the "Mayor and his colleagues will leave well alone, and not retrograde to the old hideous style of builders' hoarding It is not claiming too much to say that the appearance of Queen Street at the present time is improved 'by Ihe billposters'* and advertising agent's art, and with the large amount of building now going on, the decision of the Council to go back to the rough timber hoardings savours of a tendency to give Auckland's main street the appearance of a back yard.—l am, etc.. CITIZEN.