Wait To Get Jobs In Aust.

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31652, 11 April 1968, Page 2

Wait To Get Jobs In Aust.

Australian companies were prejudiced against New Zealanders because of their reputation for moving on when they earned some money, Miss Penny Carl, who has been living in Sydney for the last year, said in Christchurch.

Employers will consider a New Zealander only after he has been settled for at least a year. This means that although very good jobs are offering they are not always immediately available to the expatriate.

"In Sydney employers distryst anyone who hasn’t roots in the city, but there are good jobs for New Zealanders prepared to wait,” she said. Miss Carl, who is a qualified accountant, was fascinated by Sydney’s cosmopolitan air when she passed through on a world tour some years ago. After working for four years in Christchurch she decided to try her luck in Syd-

ney and was offered a job In Mrs Elizabeth Mason’s public relations firm.

The daughter of Mrs J. D. Carl, who was Beath's fashion buyer for 20 years, Miss Carl has inherited her mother’s fashion sense. She is now deeply Involved in fashion, Australia’s third largest in* dustry, because many of the firm’s clients are clothing manufacturers and retailers.

The New Zealand exports she has seen In Sydney compared more than favourably with the locally-made items. In the medium-price range they were generally better made.

Her advice to manufacturers in this country contemplating exporting was thoroughly to survey the market, ensure that deliveries were prompt and make regular trips across the Tasman. “Australians regard us as poor country cousins in fashion but realise we oan produce worth-while garments,” she said. She does not find the Sydney working world any more of a “rat race” than that in New Zealand. “Fashion is so competitive that the pace is

very hectic wherever you are," she said. Although she has no desire to be in the public eye Miss Carl has twice been propelled before television cameras. Her firm was handling publicity for a showing of French and Italian garments and half an hour before the live screening Miss Carl was told she would have to do the commentary. “I didn’t have time to be nervous, and the second time I was much more prepared” she said.

When discussing clients’ business Miss Carl finds her accountancy degree and subsequent business experience very valuable, because she can talk business on equal terms. Because Christchurch is her home town she regards it with some affection but is becoming a true Sydney-slder. Although the cost of living is high—she pays $35 a week rent for a flat in Double Bay —the city life offers many compensations. “There is a tremendous feeling of youth and vitality in Australia, which is infectious," she said.