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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 2, Issue 6 (October 1, 1927)

A Barbarian Barber

A Barbarian Barber.

They had some free-and-easy ways in old Ohinemutu those days, pakeha as well as Maori. The township barber didn't trouble about heating water in his shop. All he had to do when a customer entered for a shave was to run across the road with his billy of tank-water, set it for a few moments on a steam jet that issued from the earth at the bottom of a cutting just under Pukeroa, and everything was ready for the fell deed. Rotorua is a more sophisticated place these times; it has all the conveniences and luxuries of a city.