That Fateful Haircut

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 89, 9 January 1935, Page 11

That Fateful Haircut

Sir, —Wellington has been thrilled by the observations of “Strewelpeter” ami the replies of the tonsorial artists. Tue criticism was a bit hard ; it was just fate that guided “Strewelpeter” into the death-chair. Personally I think the Wellington hairdressers are no worse—and come are a little better—than their brethren overseas. True Wellington cannot boast of the big and expensively equipped I saloons of some of the bigger cities of the world, but the men, especially the younger men, seem to be as well groomed and can show as fine heads of hair as the men in other parts of the world. Tile personal cleanliness of Wellington’s hairdressers is of a higher standard than that I have had to tolerate in other countries, and I have still to hear of any dangerous epidemic whose source has been traced, to the barbers’ chairs of Wellington? Some people are just a little bit too fussv about a comb or a brush, yet these same people will rush to occupy theatre, train and tram seats 'which have been occupied for hours on end by all sorts and conditions of people. The Scots have a saying. “Ye’ll touch a feck o’ dirt afore ye dee’ ; a world of truth in that. One thing I like about the Wellington l airdressers is their homeliness; they arequiet workers and do not pester a man in the chair. I have had my hair cut in all the cities of New Zealand and Australia, m Cape Town and Durban, in Colombo and Naples, in Toulon and Gibraltar, iij all the cities of Britain from London to Aberdeen, and in the majority of these overseas places I have been pestered when m the chair to buy hair creams, hair restorers, to have a scalp or face massage, to have a shampoo, and at times have I’ad to protest against their jabbering. Many a New Zealander has innocently walked into' a barber’s chair in Sydney and been literally robbed of 10/- for massage, shampoo and jars of rubbish. However, “Strewelpeter” has had his complaint aired and answered; we have all been thrilled and amused; all is well that ends well.—l am, etc.

... t T SCOTORUM. ‘Wellington, January 8.