“HAIRCUT, SIR?”

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12620, 3 December 1926, Page 3

“HAIRCUT, SIR?”

THE HEART OF A BARBER LONG HAIR-AND A COURT CA&E. : The long-haired man sat in hopes—and a hairdresser’s saloon. It was the late night and a number of men were waiting to have their locks shorn by the .barber. On and on ticked the clock until the hands were pointing to a few minutes to eight. Now, hairdressers, like many-other people, have an award, and their particular one states that no assistant shall be detained longer than five minutes after 8 p.m. On sped the ■ hands of the clock. Would the patient man be in time to get into the chair and say “Haircut, please?” He had’ come a long, way, and really his hair needed ■ cutting. Eight o’clock strikes. The longhaired man has waited in vain. But no I Beneath the white coat of. that barber’s assistant beat a heart of gold. Award, or no award, that man would have his hair cut; Just as the assistant had finished his job, Nemesis, in the person of an inspector of the Labour Department, stalked into the saloon. The result of this net of kindness was the appearance in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning of E. Prier, hairdresser, of Main road. Lower Hutt, who was proceeded against hv Mr AV. Mount,joy. Inspector of Awards, who sought to recover a penalty for a breach of the . Hairdressers’ Assistants’ Award. Mr P. Jackson appeared for the defendant, and told the court that the offence had taken place on a Friday night when there was a rush of customers. Amidst considerable laughter, he said that the assistant had rfot the heart to send the man away with his hair long. The nne-and-sixpennv haircut cost Prier 10s.