GOOD JOBS FOR THE QUALIFIED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 290, 7 December 1937, Page 15

GOOD JOBS FOR THE QUALIFIED.

An Aucklanders

Experiences Abroad.

"If you hare the qualifications it is an easy matter to get work in London," said Miss Kathleen Bailey, who has just arrived bark in Auckland from a two years' trip to England and the Continent.

"In London there is a constant demand for good typists, bookkeepers, secretaries," Miss Bailey said. .She herself, when she was not travelling, had her own flat in London, and was engaged in legal work, making as much as £12 per week. "This, kind of work is highly paid," she eaid. "I had to work long hours to get through, but it was interesting and I did not notice the time going. Of course, I did not make so much all the time. I averaged about £6 or £7 per week, working eight or nine hours a day."

Miss Bailey spent three months in Paris —not an a tourist. She was teaching a French family English. But sh* did not enjoy it very much. The French, she found, lived by an entirely different standard from the English. Their frank acceptance of moral situations that would not be tolerated in England was a surprise to her. Paris to live in— no; but Paris for & holiday—an exciting, lovely city. "But not nearly so lovely as London," Mise Bailey said. "I had a furnished service flat for 35/ per week. It not & particularly economical way of living. but very convenient. I think that a visitor to London should expect to spend a pound a day on living and sightseeing —at the least, and as much more as 1/ likes." The loveliest city in Europe, Miss Bailey thinks, is Budapest. Last year she did a trip through Europe, going through France, Belgium, Germany, into Austria. Hungary, and Czechoslovakia. She travelled by motor, staying at out-of-the-way little inns as well as those on the usual routes. This year she went to Italy, down the Dalmatian Coast, to Venice and Lake Como.

"This last year was a marvellous year for entertainments in London," Miss Bailey said. "Colonials went from one festivity to another. After the Coronation the fun did not stop; England eet out to entertain her colonial guests, and we all had a great time. The crowds of people were simply terrific. Now I'm back here I keep wondering where everyone is, and all the way up in the train I kept making excuses, to English people travelling with me. for the untidiness of the countryside. After the neatness of England it looks dreadfully uncn.red for —as though no one owned it, or wanted to own it."

Bat taking one thing with another, Miss Bailey said she thought that New Zealand life had a lot to recommend it. The freedom, the sunshine, the easy accessibility, to everyone, of pleasures that in England were only for the very rich, mad*JKTew Zealand a lovely eoantry. Mia* Bailey is glad to be home.