DEPARTMENTAL INDECENCIES.

Evening Star, Issue 12900, 24 August 1906, Page 2

DEPARTMENTAL INDECENCIES.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—Everyone with any sense of the fitness of things must agree with your remarks of last night regarding the proposed hoarding at the new railway station. It will be a monstrous shame if such a thing is permitted. Whether or not the building is a “thing of beauty” may be left to architectural experts, but it may be safely said by anyone, without fear of contradiction, except from a very gross utilitarian, that flanng and glaring advertisements of the thousand and one articles of trade likely to be “rushed” on to public notice by means of the proposed affair will be anything but “a joy for ever.” This subject forces to one’s recollection a personal encounter which befell the writer in the grand and rugged Kawarau Gorge, a few miles this side of Cromwell. There, while surveying with delight mingled with awe, the inspiring scenery of the spot, one was suddenly disgusted at the sight of an unpleasant reminder of Dunedin. It took the shape of pseudo-medical advice to try someone’s podophyllum. The individual in this case was inot nameless, not by any means. That would not Lave been good business; but his place of business was not one hundred miles from Dunedin. Hoping this sort of thin® will be yet prohibited—l am, etc-, ® August 25. A-D.P.