PATERNAL MELBOURNE
THE CITY OF SIGNBOARDS. 1 “THE MAN IN GREK.” “Melbourne is a city of signboards. Everywhere one goes, in the streets, in the., railway .stations, in the parks, the place is. plastered with them. Melbourne’s citizens have no excuse for not knowing what they -ought to know, or for doing what,they snoutd not do; they axe admonished and directed on every side.' and I really believe a visitor could find anything he wanted if he could only find tne right signboard.” I-. ,
It was tijras that the Mayor (Mr RA. Wright), described-in humorous vein due aspect of life in Melbourne, whence helms just returned.
“In the railway stations there are notice giving ibfofmation-upon every possible topic, and then a final injunction, '.lf -there'is anything of which lyou remain in doubt, ask the man in [grey.’ And there, sure enough; was [an official dressed in grey, a kind of walking encyclopaedia, who knew everything, and whose bnsineae it was to tell it to everybody. ‘ . “X wps impressed by this,” aaid Mir Wright, “but the climax came when I was walking along the street, and saw a’mad working on the tramline- with an- acetylene welder. Stock in the road beside ’him ’ wad a signboard: T)o-not Took At this light: it hurts the eyes l’ I passed on, filled with'admiration, for a paternal man* cipality."- • i-•
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12042, 21 January 1925, Page 6
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