MISS HUNGARY IN ENGLAND.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 21, 26 January 1939, Page 18

MISS HUNGARY IN ENGLAND.

3000 Girls Replace German Domestics. Hungarian girls are tihe latest fashion in servants for British homes. Three thoiisand are already working in this country. They are still entering at a brisk rate, says an KnglirWh ]>aj>er. Berlin's officially expressed wish that all (rennan girls i.n service abroad should return home, owing to the shortage of female labour, is e.v|iected to take full effect in England early this yea r. Of the 20,000 in Britain, it is es*tiinated, 8000 will have to give up their jolw almost immediately. Hungarians are the most popular candidates for the vacancies. They far exceed ini number thc newcomers 'from Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Rumania. Sturdy Girls. An. agency now exists in JCottinp Hill (Jate, W., which deals exclusively with the supply of Hungarian servants. Another large agency in Haymarket. W., which was placing thousands of (ierman and Austrian has taken on two Hungarian interpreters and has re-adajrted its organisation with new head(pwrters in Budaftest. Most of the Hungarians coining over make excellent servants. They are. in the maim, sturdy |»easant girls." w<ho like hard work, cook well, are loyal and truthful and are clever needlewomen. What They Eat. But few Hungarian girls spea-k a word of English and hardly one employer in a thousand can speak Hungarian, and because the girls are brawny |>ea*ants tihey eat nearly twice as much as the average English servant. They are far from economical. Butter, eggs, cream. |>oultry and vegetables are remarkably cheap in their Hungary and the way they use these in the kitchen lias alarmed the tinprepared Englishwoman. They do not like strict discipline. They often refuse to work in an officer's home because they fear anv •emblance of "military rule."