PRINCELY SALARY
FOR DRESS DESIGNER FOUR HOLIDAYS A YEAR OTHER LIBERAL TERMS. by cable— press association— copyright. Received 10.50 a.m. to-day. LONDON, Jan. 14. A salary of £15,000 plus commission, with holidays four times a year, including six weeks in summer, fifteen guineas expenses daily for fashionable race meetings, and expenses for four visits to Paris every year for a week each, six gowns per year averaging £25 each, were among the terms on which Paquins, Limited, West End dressmakers, engaged a dress designer, Mrs. Fox Pitt, in 1923, but- cancelled it at a moment’s notice in 1925, the directors alleging that she secretly charged five apprentices a- premium of £2O in addition to £3O each which the firm charged. Mrs. Pitt asserts that the directors assented to the charging of the extra £2O, which was intended for distribution among the supervisors to induce them to teach the apprentices thoroughly. —Sydney Sun Cable.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 15 January 1927, Page 5
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153PRINCELY SALARY Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 15 January 1927, Page 5
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