WANTED, A JOB

Evening Star, Issue 19634, 13 August 1927, Page 24

WANTED, A JOB

RICH MAN'S SON WANTS WORK G ARDHXER-CHAUI’FEU R PREFERRED. Mr Sholto D. Vickers, son of Mr Douglas Vickers, chairman of Vickers, Limited, is a young man of about twenty-live with an income of his own and a car of his own, but ho wants a job as chauffeur-gardener. He lives in Ids own flat, in his father’s homo at Chapel House, Charles street, Berkeley Square, W., and is a member of the Cavendish Club. There is no necessity for him to work, hut he is prompted by the desire to do something, useful with his life. He might; of course, go into business, but" he has chosen gardening because of his love for it and car driving because of his knowledge of motors. He has received between twenty and forty replies to an advertisement in which he sought a job, and is determined to accept one of the offers, Mr Vickers is bv no means an isolated example of the desire by modern well-educated, wealthy youth to make itself useful. There is, for instance, an undergraduate at Cambridge at the present moment who proposes spending his summer vacation working his passage backwards and forwards to America. Mr Sholto Vickers’s mother is a sister of the eighth Viscount Chetwynd. Besides the town house in Charles street, Mr Douglas Vickers owns the magnificent, Tulloch Casllo in the Highlands.