REVENGE OF A BARBER.
A “SHORT” HAIR-CUT.
A mother recently led her six-year-old daughter into a witnessbox at Stratford Police Court, and removed the child’s hat. The Magistrate observed that the little girl’s hair had been so drastically “bobbed” that the back of the head up to the level of the ears was shaven. “On Saturday,” explained the mother, “I sent the girl to a hairdresser’s to have her hair ‘bobbed.’ When she returned, I saw that it had not beeffi cut short enough, and told her to go again. The barber said: ‘l’ll see it is short enough.’ You have before you the result, the disfigurement of the. child. What can I do?” The clerk: You sent the child to have her hair cut, and therefore, it is nofan assault.
Mr W. W. Green, the chairman: The barber has acted very badly, but I am afraid lie has done nothing criminal, You can go to the County Court and summon him for damage to the child; there is no doubt that he did this in temper.
The mother: When I spoke to him he grinned. Mr Green: It is disgraceful.* I must not- say here what I should do in the street if I were the father.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2344, 20 October 1921, Page 4
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208REVENGE OF A BARBER. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2344, 20 October 1921, Page 4
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