1946: Don’t Spit

December 8, 2020

By AHNZ

Labour 1.0 Government public notice, c.1946

Indications are that New Zealand was, during this r-selected time period, not internalising hygiene and health. Certain moral cultures think of their fellow man more than at other times and the idea of not polluting their home range for the common good is too abstract. Such obligations are cognitively out-sourced to Big Brother. And, of course, politicians are only too willing to fulfil that role as this poster demonstrates.

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Note: Probably dates from November 1946 as a similar bit of Public Service Propaganda is published in newspapers of that time. Ref. Northland Age, Paper’s Past

Ref. Te Ara

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