ATTACK ON HOARDINGS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 221, 18 September 1930, Page 7

ATTACK ON HOARDINGS.

FOUR DUNEDIN CITIZENS.

"CLEANING UP CROMWELL

GORGE."

POLTOEMAN.INTERVENES.

(By Telegrapli.-7-Own Correspondent.)

DUNEDET, Wednesday.

As a .protest againstVthe despoiling of the countryside by large and uneigihtly advertising ihoarjdinge four prominent! Dunedin citizens, aftried with eawa and axes, recently set: out on an adventure of destruction. Their , object was to clean up the Cromwell Gorge and they commenced operations'ona hoarding a short; distance from Clyde. The hoarding wae a large one and was firmly fixed, but the combined efforts' of these , four stalwarts eventually saw it dumped' into the river. A motor cyclist passed along and reported what'".was happening in. the gorge to'the local constable, who went out and caused, the party's beautifying efforts to cease; .; -,- One of the leading participants explained to a: reporter that the action was taken, as a protest against the inactivity of the Government in allowing , (hoardings to be placed-.on the roadside, thus making the country hideous. When a busy man went for a holiday into the country, he eaid, he wanted to leave the town and all its/associations well behind,,;-but if such signs were to <b& broadcast all over the country the town was- ever present in the traveller's mind. The destruction of the hoarding has been reported to the police and Court proceedings may follow.