"HELLO GIRL," M.A.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 143, 19 June 1922, Page 5

"HELLO GIRL," M.A.

NEW JOB FOB GRADUATE. AT LAUNDRY PHONE. LONDON, June S. Gentlewomen holding university degrees and capable of dispensing tact, courtesy, good temper, and patience at the end of a telephone, are assured of remunerative employment if the example of the Savoy Hotel laundry is followed by laundries throughout the country. Recently the manager advertised in the "Times" for a gentlewoman possessed of the above virtues to answer telephone inquiries by customers. He stipulated that she must have had a university and public school education, and offered the salary of £250 a year. The result was a deluge of SOO applications from public school and university graduates, including B.A.s and M.A.'s, some with honours, in all parts of tho country. The job of answering inquiries at the laundry has usually been placed in the hands of a youth or "flapper." with exasperating and unsatisfactory results The manager of the Savoy laundry wants a trained brain, and considers that the job requires judgment and fact of a high order.