Speaking Baldly

The Barber of Seville was the inspiration of a famous opera, but the absence of a barber on Norfolk Island inspires language of a different kind according to an inspired, and desperate, paragraph in a recent issue of “Norfolk News”. The paragraph points out that Norfolk has no barber, and that while old hands have developed a fairly good idea of the skill of various obliging amateurs, newcomers soon take on the appearance of out-of-work musicians before somebody offers a suggestion to provide relief.

Demands “Norfolk News”: “Can’t SOMEBODY promote this private enterprise with profit to himself and relief to a population where baldness is not characteristic?”