“Why Blame the Barber?”
Sir, —“Strewelpeter” certainly deserves the sincere thanks of all lovers of cleanliness by drawing the attention of the public to the state of most barbers’ saloons, not only in Wellington, but in the whole of the Dominion. But why blame the barber? He is called upon to apply for a license to conduct his saloon, and his premises are inspected by an officer of the Department of Health. If they are found to be unsatisfactory he is refused his license —but have any readers seen a report of a prosecution being made? The hairdresser gets away with it, so why blame him? One strolls into a hairdresser’s saloon, sees soap-filled brushes lying around, the floor strewn with hair and old shaving papers in abundance—but one still goes back. One sees “Steriliser” written on an ordinary bathroom cabinet with a red door, but there is no evidence of any sterilising compound. I have seen one with an empty saucer on the bottom shelf, ostensibly containing formalin, but actually empty. .So why blame the barber?—l am, etc., WE’RE TO BLAME OURSELVES. Patea.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 92, 12 January 1935, Page 9
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184“Why Blame the Barber?” Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 92, 12 January 1935, Page 9
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