AESTHETIC PROTEST
UNSIGHTLY HOARDINGS
ICONOCLASTIC ACTIVITY
(By Telegraph.)
(Special to "The Evening Post.")
DUNEDIN, This Day
As a protest against the countryside being spoiled by large and unsightly advertising hoardings, four prominent Duncdin citizens armed with saws and iixes recently set out ou a voyage of destruction. Their object was to clean up Cromwell Gorge, rind they commenced operations on a hoarding a short distance from Clyde. Tho hoarding was a large 0110 mid was firmly lixxd, but they cut it down and threw it into the river. A motor-cyclist who passed at the' time reported the matter to the local constable, who went out and the party's beautifying efforts censed. 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 said, he wanted to leave the town and all its associations behind, but if such signs were erected all over the country the town was ever present in the traveller's inina. Court proceedings may follow.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 69, 18 September 1930, Page 14
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195AESTHETIC PROTEST Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 69, 18 September 1930, Page 14
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