MINERS BECOME BUTLERS
WHAT TRAINING CAMPS DO Is it possible to transform a miner, a colliery clerk, a grocer's assistant, or a sttfel worker into a butler, parlourman, chauffeur, or chef? At Hedingham Castle, near Braintree in Essex, dozens of unemployed men from the depressed areas are training for privato service —and liking it. Since the Hedingham Training Camps and Employment Scheme was started by a Miss Musette Majendie in 1929, over 300 men have passed through the camps; all are now successful butlers, footmen, chefs, chauffeurs or parlourmen.
The entire training is founded on Scout Discipline and Scout Ideals, the camps being in charge of Rover Scout leaders. Jobs are guaranteed the men after training, and all their expenses are paid; railway fare from their homes, clothes, equipment and even a small weekly sum for pocket-money, are provided for those who realise that there are worse jobs than those of private servants.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21876, 11 August 1934, Page 3 (Supplement)
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153MINERS BECOME BUTLERS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21876, 11 August 1934, Page 3 (Supplement)
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