ROADSIDE ADVERTISING

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19300, 29 September 1932, Page 4

ROADSIDE ADVERTISING

REMOVED BY PETROL COMPANIES GOVERNOR-GENERALS ACTIVITY. By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, September *2B. According to an announcement by Lord Bledisloe, there Is every likelihood that many advertising hoardings disfiguring the countryside will shortly disappear. Speaking at the Wellington Horticultural Society’s spring show to-day, and remarking on the aesthetic improvements in and around the city in the way of gardens, Hi* Excellency said it gave him pleasure to announce that, after negotiations extending over the past eighteen months, be was able to say that the disfigurements by motor spirit hoardings would probably soon disappear, through the publicspirited attitude of the Shell Company. That Company had given him an undertaking that their advertising boards in all country districts would soon be removed. The only exception would be at the entrance to towns, informing motorists where their requirements were obtainable. Since that undertaking had been given, His Excellency said, he had been in communication with three other firms, and he had reason to believe that they would follow this example, except in regard to advertisements on railways, for which contracts existed. Speaking of the Dominion’* many beauties. His Excellency said h»'hoped that other businesses would follow, the example. No beauties should be destroyed by what he called “men’s commercial abnormalities.”