RAILWAY HOARDINGS

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 152, 24 March 1925, Page 6

RAILWAY HOARDINGS

“A BARBAROUS DISFIGUREMENT” By Telegraph—Special Correspondent. Christchurch, March 23. Tn an editorial on “Hoardings,” the “Press” says: “A perfectly shocking scheme, planned by the Publicity Branch of the Raihvavs Department, has aroused much indignation in Wellington, and the result has been a deputation of protest from the City Council. Civic League, and Wellington Automobile Club? It seems that the Department in its praiseworthy zeal for revenue, discovered that money could be obtained from the hoardings along the railway track, bordering Hutt .Road. . . .' We hope the Wellington City Council, which seems to. voice the opinion of all Wellington in this matter, will fight the Department's proposals as vigorously as possible, for the campaign against the advertisers ot a barbarous disfigurement of our cities and the countryside will be seriously hampered if the hoarding merchants are able to say that the public conscience, acting on and through the Government, approves of this commercial ugliness In the meantime the Wellington City Council would do well to consider that it ought not to expose itself to a tu quoque.’ It ought to clear away those hoardings 'in obscure places’ which, being in obscure places, unlike the hoardings that disfigure our own city, could be removed without real loss to anybody.”