HAIR-RAISING!

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9056, 15 February 1908, Page 4

HAIR-RAISING!

The increasing cost of labour and living, high rents, and short hours are the causes alleged by the hairdressers of Masterton for increasing by 100 per cent, the price for haircutting. This is a "hair-raising" increase, but barbers may perhaps find it not conducive to the raising of hair. It i 3 very sad that just as the hatless brigade has been established for encouraging the growth of hair and preventing baldness, the hair-cutters should dowse its hopes by adding to the cost «f periodi-: clips. Hatters who began to look glum at the prospective loss of their occupation will doubtless view approvingly the new order of things. A new lease of commercial life will be given to them, just when their hearts were about to sink with despair. The reign of the liatless be short in order to prevent its hair from becoming long. Truly life is brimful of contrarieties and vexations. The Arbitration Court is of course responsible for the increased price of hair-cutt-ing. If it hadn't made the hours shorter and the wages higher all round, the cost of living and the higher rents would, or, at any rate, ought not to nave "gone up." It may be assumed now that the hairdressers have pu 1 ; up their charges, the little etceteras which make for perfect sanitation will not be overlooked. Under all the circumstances there may not be much to growl at in the projected "shear" increase, but it may be hoped that the price being uniform the sanitary precautions will likewise be uniform, so that wherever one goes for a clip and a brush one may have perfect confidenca in the scrupulou u cleanliness of the grooming implements.