RESTRICTIONS ON HOARDINGS

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24986, 21 September 1946, Page 2

RESTRICTIONS ON HOARDINGS

COUNTIES’ LAND SUBDIVISION LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL AMENDMENT (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Sept. 20. “It once was said, with absolute truth, that the only, right an ordinary member of the public possessed in the United Kingdom, was the right to walk along the public road until he dropped dead,” said the Leader of the Legislative Council (the Hon. A. MeLagan) this afternoon during discussion of the Land Subdivision in Counties Bill. There was, he said, no other right to which that man could make claim. If the condition which had been allowed to obtain in certain parts of New Zealand in regard to complete ownership of land alongside seashores tnd the banks of lakes and rivers were permitted to continue and extend, he said, the ordinary citizen .would be denied access to some of the most beautiful parts of the country. Mr McLagan was explaining the provisions in the bill which ensure the ©reservation for the public of stipulated tracts of land adjacent io the waterways of the Dominion. On the suggestion of the Hon. T. Bloodworth, the council incorporated in the bill an amendrfient designed to restrict, the erection of hoardings on land adjoining roads and access ways. Mr Bloodworth said that not ionly had hoardings a disfiguring effect when erected in beauty spots, but in some circumstances they restricted the visibility of motorists, particularly when erected at intersections.