EXPENSIVE HAIRCUTS.
SYDNEY CONSPIRACY CASE
iElec Tel Copyright-United Press Assn! (Received July 13, 8.10 am) u\i SYDNEY, July 13. At the proceedings against a barber and hvo assistants on a charge of conspiring to defraud people of large sums, various witnesses, including plain clothes police, gave evidence, that they were charged from a few shillings to. over three pounds when, they entered the shop lor a haircut whereto certain head and skin treatment were added at the bat-? bers suggestion. Tho effectiveness and authenticity of such induced treatment were amongst the issues involved. One policeman testified that his protest against a hilPfor £3 2s 9d for violet ray treatment for the removal of three hairs in addition to a haircut resulted in a reduction to 16s 6d; raiding by the pohce having appeared in the meantime.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 15874, 13 July 1922, Page 3
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136EXPENSIVE HAIRCUTS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 15874, 13 July 1922, Page 3
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