SHE RECEIVED £15,000 A YEAR, AND MUCH MORE
BUT LOSES JOB BECAUSE SHE MULCTED APPRENTICES By Telegraph.—Press Assn.--Copyright. “ Sydney Sun ” Cable. (Received January 15, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON. January 14. A .salary of £15,000, plus commission, with holiday's four times a year, including six weeks in the summer, fifteen guineas expenses daity fQr fashionable race meetings and expenses for four visits to Paris >'early for a week each, and six gowns a year, averaging £25 each, were among the terms on which Paquins, Ltd., West End dressmakers, engaged a dress designer, Mrs Fox-Pitt. in 1923, but cancelled at a moment’s notice in 1925. the directors alleging that she secretly charged five apprentices a premium of £2O in addition to the £3O each which the firm charged. Mrs Fox-Pitt asserts that the directors assented to her charging the extra £2O for distribution among the supervisors to induce them to teach the apprentices thoroughly.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18055, 15 January 1927, Page 1
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151SHE RECEIVED £15,000 A YEAR, AND MUCH MORE Star (Christchurch), Issue 18055, 15 January 1927, Page 1
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