AIDS TO NATURE.
HUGE EXPENDITURE IN BEAUTY PARLOURS.
The New South Wales acting-Minis-ter of Labour (Air H. M. Hawkins) assisted, in permanently waving a young woman’s hair, after he had opened the Master Ladies’ Hairdressers’ Academy, in Elizabeth Street, Sydney. The incident caused much merriment among the crowd of women present. “I cannot recall,” Air Hawkins said, explaining liis professed embarrassment, “that I have ever performed a more pleasant and difficult opening ceremony.” ' The general secretary and director of the academy (Mr L. Jury) said that women in the world spent £60,000.000 annually in hairdressing and cosmetics, and £225.000 was spent in New South Wales. The. number of “master” women hairdressers in the State was 2500, and each year 12,500,000 visits to beauty parlours were made by women and girls.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MS19350719.2.190
Bibliographic details
Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 197, 19 July 1935, Page 16
Word Count
130AIDS TO NATURE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 197, 19 July 1935, Page 16
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Manawatu Standard. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.