SYDNEY BARBERS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21358, 11 June 1931, Page 10

SYDNEY BARBERS

HAIR CUTS AT HOME. (From Our Own Coeeespondent.) SYDNEY, June 3. Hairdressers, like everyone else in Sydney, are feeling the pinch of hard times. At existing rates, the average man cannot have the same regard for his hirsute adornment as was formerly the case. He either now has only one hair cut every few weeks where he used to have two, or he gets his wife to trim the back of his hair for nothing. The result ,is an army of unemployed hairdressers', some of whom, however, have conceived the noble idea of going from house to house with their paraphernalia, searching for any men about the place, and offering to cut their hair in their own homes for 6d, the price of a shave being cut as low as 4d and 3d. One unemployed suburban hairdresser is earning at least £3 a week this way; others are also thus keeping the wolf from the door. That this price-cutting has incurred the wrath of regular hairdressers is not surprising. Suburban boot repairers are also calling for orders, where, formerly,. one had to take his footwear to them and more often than not, had to ,call two or three times before he got his boots of shoes back. Now, without delay, one can have them called- for and delivered. The days when money was easily earned, and tradesmen could treat one with a certain , amount of disdain, are gone. In many of the city shops, too, the change thq£ has come over things is very evident. Counter hands, scared of losing their jobs, treat one nowadays with almost the chivalry and courtesy of modern Bayards.