A BOYCOTT

NZ Truth, Issue 1229, 20 June 1929, Page 19

A BOYCOTT

In The Interests of Beauty *■, . • England is' waging a strenuous campaign to * eliminate offensive advertising along its highways. , AN organisation known as the Counr rt tryside and Footpaths' Preservation National Conference is promoting the crusade, and m a letter to the Royal Automobile Club,. makes the following suggestions which may be applicable to other countries: '"Might we make a suggestion, which, we think, would help to preserve the amenities of the roadside m which your members are necessarily deeply interested and which are so seriously and increasingly threatened. , "If, they (members of the R.A;C.) were invited to make an Informal pledge not to buy petrol (except m absolute emergency) from any. hideously disfigured or disfiguring garage, an improvement would at; once be effected without serious and legitimate interests being jeopardised. "Advertisers who offend do: so because they feel they must— the other fellow is doing it or will be doing it. "So the vicious circle revolves. It can . be broken by the simple expedient we suggest— seriously backed by . ybu.'.V