DISFIGUREMENT OF COUNTRYSIDE

Evening Star, Issue 21220, 29 September 1932, Page 5

DISFIGUREMENT OF COUNTRYSIDE

MOTOR SPIRIT HOARDINGS TO BE WITHDRAWN GENEROUS ATTITUDE OF SHELL COMPANY [Per United Pkess Association.] WELLINGTON, September 28. According to an announcement by tho Governor-General (Lord Bledisloe) there is every likelihood that many of tlie advertising hoardings disfiguring tho countryside will shortly disappear. Speaking at the Wellington Horticultural Society’s spring show to-day, and remarking on the aesthetic improvements in and around the city in the way of gardens, His Excellency said it gave him pleasure to announce that after negotiations extending over the past eighteen months, he was able to say that the disfigurements by motor spirit hoardings would probably soon disappear through the public-spirited attitude of the Shell Company. That company had given him an undertaking that its advertising boards in all country districts would soon be removed. The only exception would be at the entrance to towns, informing motorists whore their requirements wore obtainable.

Since that undertaking had been given His Excellency said he had been in communication with three other firms. He had reason to believe that they would follow the example of the Shell Company, except in regard to advertisements on railways, for which contracts existed. Speaking of tho dominion’s many beauties, His Excellency said ho hoped that other businesses would follow the example. No beauties of Nature should be destroyed by what he called “ man’s commercial abnormalities.”