CONSPIRING TO FRAUD.
EXORBITANT CHARGES. BARBER BEFORE COURT. s (Received Thursday, 8.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. At police proceedings against a barber and five assistants on a charge of conspiring to defraud people of large sums of money, various witnesses, including plain clothes policemen, gave evidence that they were charged from a few shillings to over £3 when they entered a shop for a haircut, whereto certain head and skin treatment was added at the barber’s suggestion. The effectiveness and authenticity of such induced treatment are amongst the issues involved.
One policeman testified that his protest against a bill for £3 2s 9d in connection with a violet ray treatment for the removal of three hairs in addition to a haircut resulted in a reduction to 16s 6d, raiding police having appeared in the meantime. —Press Assn.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 48, Issue 14705, 13 July 1922, Page 5
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137CONSPIRING TO FRAUD. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 48, Issue 14705, 13 July 1922, Page 5
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