ROADS DISFIGURED BY POSTERS

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 172, 17 April 1937, Page 8

ROADS DISFIGURED BY POSTERS

“Government the Worst Offenders” Members of the Wellington Beautifying Society recently embarked on a scheme to beautify the Hutt Road by planting ornamental trees on bare portions, and they had the goodwill of property-owners along the route. Recently, however, unsightly hoardings have appeared among the trees planted by the society, and other hoardings have appeared along the road. The president of the society, Captain S. Holm, told “The Dominion” yesterday that the erection of hoardings upon areas which had been beautified had considerably disheartened the members. The Government had recently convened a national conference to consider the befit means of conserving native bush and preserving natural beauty spots throughout the Dominion, and, in face of the enthusiasm which had been shown at the conference, its seemed strange that Government departments should be the worst offenders in the erection of glaring posters which were disfiguring such highways as the Hutt Road. The Wellington Beautifying Society intended to ask the Government to declare certain highways scenic roads, and to prohibit the erection of hoardings upon such roads. The Government, the society considered, should also prohibit all hoardings upon Government property. Everyone was agreed that citizens should do all in their power to beautify their surroundings, and it was only right that the Government should set an example in this direction.