OBJECTIONABLE POSTERS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3765, 11 May 1926, Page 68

OBJECTIONABLE POSTERS.

REV. J. J. NORTH’S STRICTURES. AUCKLAND. May 3. A protest against certain posters which are exhibited on the hoardings of the city was made by the Rev. J. J North at the Baptist Tabernacle last evening. The speaker said there was one thing to be thankful for and that was the comparatively clean condition of the streets of the four cities in the Dominion It was good to think of the multitudes of morally clean folk who passed cheerfully Mown our streets to their work and play, to whom life was sweet, and who were free from sex obsession. Purity, especially of thought was hard to get and hard to keep, said Mr North, and it was surely a hateful thing that the hoardings of the city should bo constantly suggestive The theatre managements wanted full houses. They found that brute nerve was the one that readily throbbed, and they outraged art and morals by their hoardings making difficult for many the fight on which everything turned. It was surely time, added Mr North, that beautifying societies, art clubs, Rotary clubs, and church people of all types cleaned up the mess in the interests of decency and happiness There had been enough provocation in the last two months to warrant action.