ROYAL STAFF
Cleaners Reduced (N.Z. Press Assn. —Copyright) SANDRINGHAM, Aug. 24. Queen Elizabeth is dismissing six of the 11 cleaning women at Sandringham, her country estate in Norfolk. Officials of the royal household said the dismissals were an economy move made possible by such recently introduced labour-saving devices as running water in the bedrooms, vacuum cleaners, and electric heaters instead of coal fires in the bedrooms. Sandringham has 350 bedrooms, but most of them are never used.
After September 30, four housemaids and five cleaning women who came in by the day will keep the place tidy. When the Royal family is in residence usually at Christmas and for the phea-
sant season—extra staff are brought from Buckingham Palace. A royal cleaning woman gets 4s an hour and works about 30 hours a week. The six being dismissed will get a parting gift.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30839, 26 August 1965, Page 2
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