HUNGARIAN GIRLS
DOMESTICS IN BRITAIN LONDON, Feb. 7. Hungarian girls are the latest fashion in servants for British homes. Three thousand are working in England and others are arriving daily. Hungarians are the most popular candidates for the vacancies. They far exceed in number the newcomers from Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia and Rumania. An agency now exists in Notting Hill-Gate which deals exclusively in placing Hungarian servants. Another large agency in Haymarket, which formerly placed thousands of German and Austrian girls, has added two Hungarian interpreters and has readapted its organisation with new headquarters in. Budapest. Most of the Hungarians coming here are said to make excellent servants. They are, in the main, sturdy peasant girls, who like hard work, cook well, arc loyal and truthful and are line needlewomen.
They arc far from economical. Butter, eggs, cream, poultry and vegetables are remarkably cheap in their native Hungary, and the way they use these in the kitchen has alarmed the unprepared Englishwoman.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19894, 23 March 1939, Page 3
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