THRIFTIEST
THEyBUSINESS GIRL
The city, business girl is the thriftiest member of the community, and easily holds the record for saving, says the "Daily Mail." Her reasons are thrift for thrifts -sake, provision for old age, the creation of a holiday fund, or to get- married.
This is .'revealed'in a statistical survey of the money habits of men* and women in London, Birmingham, and a country district around Exeter, made by Lloyds Bank. .
Of the'girls interviewed in the cities 73 per cent..had savings accounts, compared with; 56 per cent, in the country. The | figures for men were 68 per cent, in the cities'and.67 per cent, in the country. ,' . ■ .
Thirty-sis per cent, of the city business girls stated that they saved for the sake of ithrift. The girJs interviewed were typists, clerks, waitresses, and shop assistants.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 69, 18 September 1930, Page 19
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135THRIFTIEST Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 69, 18 September 1930, Page 19
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