China Advertising Company, Licensing Street advertising, 1905-1910. Source: SMA (SMC) : U1-2-371 (2494-2495)
Acting Secretary to Watch Committee - forwarding a Letter from China Advertising Company with Police comment - regarding the need of licensing street advertisements. Shanghai, August 26, 1920. Source: SMA (SMC) : U1-2-371 (2494).
Letter from the China Advertising Co. With comment by the Captain Superintendent of Police. In informed the writer that he need expect no reply for sometime.
As a metter of fact careful reading of his letter shows that little reply is necessary, save that the need of licensing street advertisements has come before the Council in an indirect way since the beginning of they year; that it thus seems probable that on the next occasion when additions to Bye Law XXXIV are made the advisability of including provision for the licensing of posters will be favourably considered; that the control thus exercised would naturally have the effect of checking infingement of private rights, but that no system of monopoly such as he suggest would ever be likely to find favour with the Council.
Acting Secretary to China Advertising Company (?). Shanghai, November 16, 1905. Source: SMA (SMC) : U1-2-371 (2495)
I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 4th instant (November 1905) on the subject of bill-posting and other forms of street-advertisement. In reply thereto, I am directed to draw your attention to the minute in re published in this morning's newspapers. It is to be observed that no work of this character involving encroachment or obstruction, even of a temporary nature, to the public streets can be undertaken withtout a permit from the Municipal Engineer. The Council at present sees no objection to the erection of advertising boards as protective fences for buildings in course of construction.
Clipping "Bill Posting" - attached to the letter from Acting Secretary to China Advertising Company (?). Shanghai, November 16, 1905. Source: SMA (SMC) : U1-2-371 (2495).
BILL POSTING. In regard to the recent noticeable increase in this industry and to the absence of any special regulations for its control, the council directs
- that no bill be posted on Municipal or other public buildings
- that the Police take action in respect to bills posted without authority only at the request of the bona-fide owner of the premises concerned, or in compliance with a prohibitory notice.
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