UNSIGHTLY HOARDINGS

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3847, 1 October 1932, Page 4

UNSIGHTLY HOARDINGS

BUM I NATION COMINC

I ORD BLFj I> f SLOE ’ S E L FORTS

Calling it one of the beat bits of new s tliat be had be?n able to announce from a public* platform for some tint.*, Lord Bledislo?, stated in Wellington at the opemng of tf.ie flower siho a' iji the Town Hall that as the. result, of nearly 18 monrths’ negotiations the Shall Company had agreed to remove shortly all its advertiseme.rut from all country districts, except at the approach to towns-

Since that, undertaking had befcm given, added his Excellency, negotiations had been prooeedmo; with th r e o other motor spi.rit firms, the Vacuum Atlantic and Texas Oil Companies and he iiad reason to believe that they would probably follow the good example of the Shell Company, except in regard to advertisemoaVs on the railways, in respect to which there were contracts wtueh could not be cancelled. This would be a .step lie said, towards putting an end co the disfigurement and desecration of uhe beauty spots of the country side. New Zealand for its size, had a larger number of t-he.se- {spots of varying descriptions than w*3re to be found in any other part* of tit"' world, and it would be* nothing short of unpardonable vandalism if these spots were allowed to be disfigured, thus rat sing adverse criticism front visitors. The way lmd been opened by the motor spirit people, concluded his Excellency, and. he hoped tfmt other commercial firms would follow the good example that had set. It should be the aim of the people of the Dominion to> see the natural beauties of then* country were not, destroyed Hr men’s commercial abnormalities.