A controversy on the decoration of canal boats
Barbara Jones (an artist). Sonia Smith (a boat-woman). C. A. Wilson (South-East Divisional Engineer of the Docks and Inland Waterways Executive). R. W Patterson (director of a private carrying company), and other witnesses, examined by Hal Jukes For more than a hundred years the long boats that carry goods on the canals and inland waterways of Great Britain have been decorated with paintings of roses and castles. Some weeks ago it was reported that these paintings were to be replaced by blue and gold, the colours of the new authority, the Docks and Inland Waterways Executive. The report was denied, but feeling still runs high