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News
for Business GIRLS
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IN indignant employer has written protesting against girls who, having learned the essentials of a business, leave and set up on their own, taking some of their former customers with them.
Ho considers it a form of theft which should be met with legal redress, What do business girls think about it?
There are two particular branches of commerce which suffer from this form of enterprise--the hairdressing and beauty culture trades.
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Neither profesion has, at the moment, any definite examinations or Business is therefore gained certificates at which employees can alm and held simply and sulely on merit and succes with individual clients.
There is no Sunday-school code in commerce, and if employees are quick and bright and there are no se qualifications for them to wait for they will naturally branch out on their own. The fault would therefore appear to lie with the profession it- self and with the employers.
Such employers should descend from their moral perch, and if they And they have clever, popular assist- ants with a long list of customers be. hind them-make it worth the girls' while to play In the present business.
There are a variety of staff pro- sharing schemes in existence, both in England and in America. They have been found to be a great success.
A small fee-in proportion to the aize of the Brm-to an expert in auch schemes will save, employers in these particular professions much anxiety, and will keep the brilliant ones with- in the foll
Office Conditions
Name Chart
CHARLOTTE
Symbol:
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HIS name signifies versatility
and artistic gifts.
Sunday in the day of Fortune. The Jucklest hours are sunrise and noun, the lucky day of the month is the ninth,"
Your stone is the miby. Prim- rose is your most harmonie shade, and also tones of misty blue. The primrose is your special flower, and your lucky nuniber is one,
balf the mording Racking at
WHAT is really surprising is "Situations Vacant columns.
the oppisite aide of the.
picture. Why do so many girls put A Few Suggestions
the
FT is a diffletilt eircle in break,
Rents are so high that on
up with conilltions in offices which their sisters in other countries would not dream of tolerating for a week?
Visit a modern office at Home or in players do not want to spend extri America and look at the rest rooms, money on a proper rest room for the Surgical rooms, dental rooms, music ris, and the girls are so anxious, to rooms, and excellent canteens pro- ponering that they will put vided for the employees, and then go up with incredibly bad conditions. exploring in a dozen mail Hongkong offices. What do you fød in thi Taller?
Il-ventilated, overcrowded rooms. deaks the wrong height for girls work at, and one solitary Wathing room boasting cold water and a hard piece of soan in a box-like room with Krimy window overlooking a nithy back yard.
If a clerk is taken ill she has to
But it is the employers who suffer must in the end. Bad conditions nean bad health and bad work and an atmosphere of continual frum-
hing.
A small meeting of the senior Women employees and the boss to consider suggestions for a cheap way of equipping; a rest room would help men realise considerably, as few how
extremely economically things can be done by women.
have first alt rendered to her in the Home Cookery
Reneral office.
And then some employers complain
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HE tremendous interest in home cxkery which has
that their Junior employees spend swept over Hongkong during the last
TRAVEL
train
EMPRESS
THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH.
three years is still on the up grade. Once upon a time it was looked upon as being infra dig for a European woman to hang over a kitchen stove to this Colony. The days, happily, are passing. We are eating better than for many years; the pastry-and- strong-len lunch of most business girls has quite,disappeared,
There is still room, however, for some enterprising cookery experts to suggest easy one-ring meals for business girls to prepare for them- selves in the evenings when they are living on their own in "digs."
of a
The cooking
good simple oniclette-the making of a really in- teresting fresh vegetable salad to follow it, and the relative food value of some quickly prepared dishes are the points that should be within reach of every business girl,
Only if you actually know how ap- petising cold fish salads and soups cheese can be will you with grated attempt these simple meals, and they ore infinitely preferable, to a hastily fried meat dish if you have been in a sedentary job all day. It is the Hittle embellishments that count in dishes of this sort.
Very young people loathe to worry about food. That
may be excellent in same ways, but when you do eat you should know what you are eating and why. Otherwise you will not be nuls lo Ket through the strain of
winter without deinite loss alumina-and with it your good com- plexion and bright, healthy pearaner
Timekeeping
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ARE you a good time-keeper?
According to a large group
of employers, girls are far worse in keeping to office hours than are men. This is not particularly surprising when you consider the mal feminine psychology of relying on emotions rather than on a duty to get a job done,
sense of
There is another side to this time- very careful to keep to office hours- keeping business. If you are being
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1936.
Keep your Clothes clean
while they are hanging up.
Here is a cover made of cellophane to put over your dresses and coats when they are on their coat hangers.
I will keep them clean and fresh.
You can get them from any big store.
Is your employer also keeping his side of the bargain?
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Fewer firms are paying for over- time nowadays
recognised routine, but at the same time there is very little shortening of office hours. There are literally dozens of small offees where girls are expected to work anything from fifteen to forly- ve minutes per day beyond their recognised hours of duty.
Several years ago we had put be- fore us the ideal of a five-day week for all. That dream has only materialised in a few offices, and In some business firms in America. It has worked extremely well, and in each instance output has actually been increased over a year's work.
It would seem, therefore, that the question of time at work des play an extraordinarily important part in the average person's output.
Most girls would far prefer to work extremely hard for seven hours than work slowly and inckadaisically for eigh
There must be regulations and rules in a large office, but if the em- ployers who complain of ten minutes Jost here and there would instead ap- proach the girls from more emotional angle of "This is your work
CAN to-day; when it's finished you knock off," then 7 thinks the results would be happier all round.
MOM
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KOWLOON AFFAIRS
|STREET LIGHTING; QUESTION
AGAIN BEING TACKLED
The usual monthly meeting of the General Committee of the Kowloon Realdents' Association took place on Monday evenlog in St. Andrew's Church Hall, Kowloon.
Those present were: Mr. B. Wylie (President),
F. Mow Fung
(Hon.
"Mr.
Chicasurer),
Mr. R. Baldwin
F), Mr. R. P. Phillips Messrs. Li Chor W. Felshow, C. E. Terry, H. Gitting, A. Cheung, J. M. Alves, H. Pestonji, D. W. Munton, C. M. Manners and Rev. J. H. Higgs:
Apologies for absence were received from Messrs. T. B. Wilson, F. 11.
Loschy L
L. d'Almada
Almada e Castro Jnr. Lam
Ming-fan and Dr. Ip Kam-wah, The Hon. Secretary read a letter from Government in
to reply one sent by the Association on September 21 on the subject of suspected leprosy in Kowloon. It was agreed to refer this matter to the sub-committee con- cerned,
Mr. C. E. Terry was elected as the Association's representative on the Committee of the Street Sleepers Shelter Society. In response to the Society's request for assistance in finding suitable premises, a sub-com- mittee,
consisting of Measta. C. E. Terry, C. M. Mannera and D. W. Munton, was appointed to deal with the matter.
The Hon. Secretary read a letter Kowloon resident requesting
endeavour to to supply
that the Committee persunde Government automatic machines or kiosks for the sale of postage siampa. Σε Way agreed that the Secretary should write to the Postmaster General for information on the matter.
Inadequate Street Lighting
The matter of inadequate street lighting in Kowloon was discussed. It was agreed to forward to Govern- ment a letter drawn up by a sub- committee, together, with copies of previous correspondence between Government and the Association on this subject.
report was submitted by the Kowloon Historic Sites Sub-Com- ittee, und it was decided that the Association publish a guide-book on
Territories. Kowloon and the New
In the matter of the Kowloon buses, enquiries were made regarding the desirability of
reducing Inres or alternatively, increasing the length of It was decided to make bus stages. enquiry in the appropriate quarter and. I necessary, write to Guyern- ment
In the matter,
The Hon. Secretary was instructed
to write and ask Government for n reply to the Association's previous eiler on the subject of inadequate drainage 41214 sanitation in vicinity of Kowloon City.
the
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