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NEWS Hanging up the clippers
Wayne Reid has dealt with many of Te Puke’s heads during the last 54 years. In fact, he’s now cutting hair of the third or fourth generation of some of the district’s families. But the barber who first picked up the
clippers in 1971 at age 17 – and has been tending to Te Puke’s hair since then – is about to put them down for good. He will trim his last head of hair on Christmas Eve as he finally hangs up his clippers, comb and scissors.
Reid said he’d found it interesting talking to people of all walks of life while he clipped away. “They all have their own little stories and everyone is different – they are all human beings and they all have stories to tell you and they
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all have different ideas for their haircuts. I could write a book – confessions of a hairdresser,” laughed Reid. Now 72, Reid said he felt it was the right time for him to finish. Read more about his five-decade career on page 3. Photo / Supplied