EXPENSIVE TOILETS.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 July 1922, Page 5

EXPENSIVE TOILETS.

THREE POUNDS FOR HAIR CUT. SYDNEY PROSECUTIONS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Sydney, July 13. At the proceedings against McDonald, a barber, and- hie five assistants on a charge of conspiring to defraud people of large sums. various witnesses, including plain-clothes police, gave evidence that they were charged from a few shillings to over £3 when they entered the shop for a hair-cut, to which certain head and akin treatment was added at the barber’s suggestion. The effectiveness and authenticity of such induced treatment wa* amongst the issues involved. One policeman gave evidence that his proteat against a bil] for £3 2s 9d for violet ray treatment for the removal of three hairs in addition to a hair cut resulted in a reduction to 16s fid, raiding by the police having appeared in the meantime. Received July 13. 7.50 p.m. Sydney. July 13. Tn the case against the barbers the Government analyst gave evidence that an analysis disclosed that the oils and creams in the shampoos used at McDonald’s shop were similar to those used by barbers throughout the world. An ex-foreman at McDonald’s shop deposed that employees were instructed that they must earn a certain amount of clear profit and anything above that they divided equally with the proprietor. By various alleged ruses customers were induced to undergo treatment after haircut for presumed affections of the scalp and skin, thereby piling up fancy charges.