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Election billboards are ‘political litter’

Nov 7th, 2008 | By Sandra Dickson | Category: Latest News, News

KELBURN resident Barbara Mitcalfe was so incensed by the sight of political billboards covering Wellington’s green spaces, she wrote to the Dominion Post to complain.

Not only do such hoardings get buffeted by Wellington’s world-famous winds, but she believes they are an invitation to vandals and graffiti artists.

She says political hoardings are “political litter”, which she would like to see replaced with the planting of native shrubs or trees, because “they help us breathe”.

Mrs Mitcalfe has received phone calls of support from friends and strangers for her letter to the editor, “Oust hoardings with natives”.

Watch her talk about her concerns:

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Sandra Dickson is a student journo who loves to write. Her interests, apart from media slavery, include social justice, music, sports and gardening. Preferably a combination of all four. She doesn't know yet what she wants to be when she grows up.
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