A Kaikōura man is challenging the council to take action over the growing number of illegal signs and hoardings "cluttering" the town and the district.
Kaikoura Star
Signs line the street outside shops in Kaikōura’s Main St. One man, who says they are a safety hazard, wants council to take a look at its bylaws and do something about it.
A Kaikōura man is challenging the council to take action over the growing number of illegal signs and hoardings “cluttering” the town and the district. Ralph Hogan raised the problem in the Kaikōura District Council s public forum last week, after trying for years to persuade council staff to tackle it. The council s signs bylaw limits the number of footpath signs and flags and their placement and the advertising area allowed on storefronts. It also bans offsite signs – that is, signs unrelated to their location.
Cape Cod Times
“When I read aloud to a person, is it not the same as if I was telling him something by word of mouth? The written, the printed word, is in the place of my own thoughts, of my own heart. If a window were broken into my brain or into my heart, and if the man to whom I am counting out my thoughts, or delivering my sentiments, one by one, knew already beforehand exactly what was to come out of me, should I take the trouble to put them into words? When anybody looks over my book, I always feel as if I were being torn in two.”