A DYING RACE
London’s ‘Mrs Mops’
The “Mrs Mops” of London are a slowly dying race. It is now, apparently, just as hard to find domestic help in England as it is in New
Zealand. “The shortage of domestic help has come with women being better educated; they do not want 'to do other people’s housework any more,” said Mrs G. H. Leatherman, wife of the secretarygeneral of the International Dental Federation, in Christchurch last evening. Mrs Leatherman, who is on a tour of Australia and New Zealand with her husband, said the old school of domestics was not being replaced by younger women: they wanted more Interesting and better paid work. “I am lucky. I have a wonderful woman who comes in every day to our apartment in London. She is as much a companion as a help,” she said.
Before her marriage, Mrs Leatherman was an equipment officer in the R.A.F. and met many Australian and New Zealand servicemen. “But I would not know where to find any of them now to look up,” she said.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30610, 28 November 1964, Page 2
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178A DYING RACE Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30610, 28 November 1964, Page 2
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