DIRECTED TO RUBBER MILLS

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 115, 10 February 1944, Page 3

DIRECTED TO RUBBER MILLS

Hairdresser’s Appeal Fails Dominion Special Service. AUCKLAND, February 9. “We consider (hat there are hairdressing salons all over Auckland and their work is by no means essential,” said the manpower officer’s represeutalivc, Mr. \v. A. Leggett, at a sitting of the Auckland Manpower (Industrial) Committee yesterday. Mr. Leggett appeared to oppose an appeal by the manageress of a beauty salon against the direction of a hairdresser to Reid New Zealand Rubber Mills as a factory band. “Complaints have beeu made about the rubber company’s manufacture of tenuis balls and other incidentals,” Mr. Leggett said, “but that firm’s work is of vital urgency in New Zealand's war effort. The pressure of work with first-class rubber has been so great recently that the firm has uow become unable to supply rubber rings for preserving jars just 'it the time they are most needed. The supply of rings is actually of national importance because so little canned food is coming forward.” Appellant, Mrs. Godward, said that in the last year the salon hud handled an average of 55 permanent waves and 30 hair sets weekly. She was unable to do work for health reasons, and there was now only one qualified girl and a junior aged 17| years, who would soon be liable for direction.

Mr. Leggett: It would be better to have a women’s committee to decide whether they should have “hair-do’s” or rubber rings for preserving jars. The appeal was dismissed.