HAIRDRESSER’S BIG BILL.

Taihape Daily Times, 4 October 1918, Page 2

HAIRDRESSER’S BIG BILL.

“It sticks in my a small shopkeeper in Buckingham Palace Road, should profess to be the first hairdresser in 'London, and should have charged a woman, who came over from Canada to carry on charitable war work, a sum of seventy guineas within a period of three months.” This was the comment of the judge at West London County Court in a case in which Georges Barranger, a hairdresser, carrying on business in Buckingham Palace Road under the name of Mason George, sued Mr. Sanford Fleming, a Canadian civil engineer, for £79 for goods supplied an<J work done. In October, 1916, Mrs Fleming agreed to undergo a twelve months’ course of hair treatment, and ordered three transformations at twenty guineas each. Baranger. in his evidence, said he thought they were the Rest house in London. The Judge: “Judging by the price I should think you are.” The Judge giving his decision said that the charges were monstrous, and there would be judgment for forty guineas with costs.