BEAUTY FOR 6d!

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 47, 25 February 1937, Page 13

BEAUTY FOR 6d!

SYDNEY'S SPECIALISTS. OVERCROWDED PROFESSION. '"Beauty" is to be had practically for the asking in Sydney. That at lcaet was the impression gained by Miss Teresa Mahouey, a New Zealander, who arrived by the Aorangi yesterday after a lengthy visit to Australia. The reason, she eaid, was the overcrowding of the profession in that city. There were all sorte of training schools in operaton, 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 pvogress in the business—a war that hitting the well-eetablished firms hard.

Miss Mahoney told of one shop she saw-—a dingy place—where the notice read, "Shampoo, eet and dried, 1/." Again there was another shop with the notice, "Wet set, (id." The client came out of that shop with the hair still wet, she said; but around the corner was another little establishment with the notice, "Get your wet set dried here, 3d."