MINERS AS BUTLERS
DIVERTING UNEMPLOYED. Is it possible to transform a miner, a colliery clerk, a grocer’s assistant, Ot a steel worker into a butler, a parlourman, chauffeur or chef? At Hedghigham Castle, near Baintree in Essex, dozens of unemployed men from the depressed areas are training for private service—and liking it. Since the Hedgingham training camps and employment scheme was started by a Miss Musette Majehdie 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 an 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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Taranaki Daily News, 14 September 1934, Page 12
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152MINERS AS BUTLERS Taranaki Daily News, 14 September 1934, Page 12
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