PICNIC LITTER

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21188, 8 November 1938, Page 11

PICNIC LITTER

NATIONAL CONGRESS The world’s first national congress to devise ways and means of combating picnic litter recently met in Paris, says the “Manchester Guardian.” The body concerned calls itself Le Comite National de la Lutte Centre le Papier Gras (the National Committee for the Struggle Against Greasy Paper). President Lebrum himself has accepted the presidency of the honorary committee, the “honorary” implying presumably that he himself was not present to fulminate against the strewers of buttery sandwich-papers, banana-peel, and egg-shells in beautyspots frequented by the growing army of weekenders and followers of “le camping” and “le footing” (the latter courious term being French for “hiking”). The foes of litter are going about their task with system as well as enthusiasm. The congress is to have five sections—hygiene, administrative, and judicial, methods and means of destruction or removal of detritus, role to be played by open-air, camping, and touring associations, and propaganda. It is to be hoped that abstracts of the conclusions come to may be widely circulated among local authorities in Britain.