ERECTION OF HOARDINGS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 7, 8 December 1930, Page 10

ERECTION OF HOARDINGS.

MOTORISTS’ STRONG OBJECTIONS

Per Press Association. INVERCARGILL, Dec. 6.

That motorists view with grave alarm the erection of advertising hoardings throughout the Dominion was emphatically stressed by speakers at the quarterly meeting of the South Island Motor Union.

Delegates based their attitude on the grounds that such signs constitute not only a grave menace to the personal safety of road users, but also tend to detract from the natural beauty of the countryside. The chairman, Mr F. W. Johnston, of Christchurch, said that it was highly desirable that some action should be taken.

Tho following resolution was carried: “That the Government be approached with a view to passing legislation granting local authorities the necessary power to remove any hoarding which, in the opinion of the county, is a danger or detrimental to road use re, and that the North Island Union be written to asking that it co-operate in the protest. A letter was received from Mr H. H. Sterling, general manager of railways, stating that he could not accede to the request of the union for the removal of two advertising hoardings on the railways reserve on the south side of the Sockbum railway crossing. It was decided to reply that Mr Sterling’s letter did not cover the main point in the union’s communication.