LONDON POLICEWOMEN

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22618, 5 January 1937, Page 3

LONDON POLICEWOMEN

| NEW HOSTEL IN BAYSWATER I INTEREST !N DECORATIONS I. Experts from Scotland Yard are disI playing a lively interest in the decorations of the new host-el for women i; police, according to a London writer. | Each day officials arrive in police cars at a one-time Bayswater hotel—now | a building owned by the police authorif ties —and take measurements and dis- | cuss whether walls shall be all cream f or if a two-colour motif would be jj more suitable for the new occupants. I' What were formerly "Messes 16 and I 17," Pembridge Square, Bayswater, ? for graduates from the Hendon Police » College, have now become a hostel for ? London's growing force of police- ? women. t When the writer went over the two | houses which will form the hostel, a ; leading firm of hotel decorators was in charge, and one of the jobs in progress was the dismantling of the cockf tail bar. "There will be no need for the bar | in the new hostel." an official said, "and the space Mill be made into a writing room. The billiards room is also to be taken out, and the room i will be used as an extra lounge, or perhaps as a recreation room with table tennis and similar games." Many of the women will have separate bedrooms. Others will share, but in each case they will have a bedsitting room, with their own gas fires, and each one will be able to use her own personal possessions to decorate the room. One of the most popular rooms is likely to be the drawing room, with its grand piano and a floor that can be used for dancing. The whole scheme is to give the Tromen police a home much more luxurious than they would have been able to have as business girls living in rooms. Actually one of the principal things will be the cuisine and a staff will be on duty night and day to provide hot meals whenever they are needed. The Hendon graduates found it a most comfortable place and it is being adapted to suit the woman w ho womanly surroundings after a hard day's work.