A HEAVY CLIP

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18924, 28 January 1936, Page 2

A HEAVY CLIP

AUSTRALIAN-CAMP

SYDNEY, Jan. 9.

Eight hands busy and no unavoidable delay was the situation at the Far West camp at Manly yesterday afternoon when four barbers gave Up their afternoon to out the hair of 110 children. Clad in white coats, and with electric clippers, the three men, and one woman "went, through." the small army in quick time, and by tea almost every child in the camp had nicely trimmed or bobbed hair.

Mr. Drummond, who was there to see the procession, remarked that lie did not know ho had .such a handsome lot of children.

For many of them. it. was the first haircut by a real barber, the job previously having been done, byt their parents. "Gee it was bon/.er," said one lad, who confided that, the barber did not push his head about as his father did. Another boy from Broken Mill, said that the scissors were sharper than those his mother used and did not make him sing out. Elsie Martin, who comes from the other side of White Cliffs, said that her nearest barbel" at homo was 120 miles away. The "clip" was a good one, said Mr. Drummond, pointing to a bundle of hair which "had 'been swept, up. When the barbers had finished their job, the children gave them three ringi ing cheers.