Beauty for 6d.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 378, 9 March 1937, Page 3

Beauty for 6d.

“Beauty” is to be had practically for the asking in Sydney. That at .least was the impression gained by Miss Teresa Mahoney, a New Zealander, who arrived by the Aorangi after 'a lengthy visit to Australia. The reason, she said, was the overcrowding of the profession in that city. There were all torts of training schools in operation, she said, charging from 5 guineas to 30 guineas a quarter to their pupils', and they were willing to give treatments to clients free of charge in order to give their pupils practice. As the girls' were turned out from these schools they set themselves up in all sorts of little shops about the city, and there was a fierce price war in progress in the business—a war that was hitting the well-established firms hard.

Mist' Mahoney told of one shop she saw—a dingy place—where the notice read, “Shampoo, set and dried, 1/-.” Again there was another shop with the notice, “Wet set, 6d.” The client came out of that shop with the Hair still wet, she said; but around the corner v’as another little establishment with the notice, “Get your wet set dried here 1 , 3d.’’