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THE `HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

ONE BRITON AMONG THE AIR HOSTESSES, THE-

NOVEMBER 15, 1988.

EMPIRE X-Ray

Girls Who Cross Europe NEWS

To Work

THEIR JOB IS TO TALK

----in Many Tongues

-and ALL At 9st.

When Miss Laurie Steele, slim 26-years-old brunette, stepped into a Dutch K.LM. air liner at Croydon re- cently, she was entering not a mere means of conveyance, but her place of employment.

She is the only British stewardess serving on a Con- tinental air route. Among the petite, polyglot, trim- uniformed "air hostesses" who have become such familiar figures at European airports, she is the only one speaking English as her mother-tongue.

There are, you see, two opposing schools of thought on the subject of feminine attendance in the air.

WHY SHE IS UNIQUE

Those in favour hold they exercise a soothing influence on nervous passengers, and with their social grace, induce an easy, friendly atmosphere en voyage; those against contend that men make the more efficient stewards and all-purpose attendants.

And since British air lines operating Continental services are numbered among "those against," you will understand just why Miss Steelo la unique.

"Am I lucky to get the job!" she exclaimed to me, just be- fore setting off for Amsterdam and her aerial duties. "I was air hostess in Australia for a year, but I wanted to see the European capitals and keep my job in the air at the same time. It seemed a hopeless prospect, but I approached the K.L.M. agent in Sydney on the off-chance,

Kirl

"I have flown 200,000 miles since the beginning of the year, and loved every mile of it," she said.

"Men passengers are generally mure nervous than women.

The women just read, or look out of the window; the men just talk and talk, and it's part my job to entertain them.

"It means I have to be in the air | Russian too: six days a week instead of

having three to myself, as in Australia, but it is worth it, if you love flying and enjoy constantly meeting and doing your best to help fresh people."

The feminine aflendunts of the skles are first and foremost vivacious with a real love of flying and a strict sense of duty; add to that the and conversational intelligence powers of a woman of the world, the linguistic ability of u professor of languages, the sympathy of a nurse, the domesticity of a housewife-and only then will you understand why so many call but so few are for the position of air hostess.

To restrict things even more, only pirls below nine stone in weight need apply.

chosen

Let's talk to some more of them..

"Romance? Oh No!" Margit Keelikova, appointed out of 400 applicants 10 Prague-London ser- vice of Czecho-Slovak C1.5, Line, who, at 23, not only speaks her father's Czech and her mother's French but English, German, and

"Romance?" she gurgled. “No- body has ever asked me to marry yet."

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**Pilots? Ob!" (with dashing smile at the two of that ilk who had brought her from Prague) "I know

too much about them. I think they have a wife in every airport!"

"30 WEDDINGS”– Ann Becker, of the Royal Dutch line, dispinys a double row of pearly teeth every limu.she smiles-which makes the pilots talk about tooth- paste advertisements,

"These cheeky devil pilots," she said to me in mock disgust.

"Our stewardesses generally leave the service after two or three years, most of them to get married.

ARMISTICE DAY WEDDING. The Rev. Victor Dixon and his bride, the former Miss Emily Blanche Foale, after their recent mar- ringe at St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon.-Staff Photographer.

"But not often to plots. Some- time; to members of the ground staff or oficials of the Une. Never to pas- sengers. Romance and business don't mix in the air,"

Lou Van Der Meulen is at 24 n "veteran" of the K.L.M. Line, She has been with it for more than three years.

Listen:

"Aboul 30 hostesses have left

to get married in my time, but I can't see anything like that hap- pening to me. I should have to leave the service, and I'm much too keen on flying.

"When I Arst became a hostess I was told to think of the 'plane as my home and the passengers 03 my guests, and that is how I try to be

have.

“I used to be a nurse in a children's clinic, and had never flown until 1) took on this job,"

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Footnonte.The attitude perial Airways to air hostesses is this (in the words of an official);

"We consider men to be the more efficient and welcome "at- tendunts. After all, you never mert a stewardess in à train."

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MINING EMPLOYMENT IN AUSTRALIA

Sydney.

The years since the Great War have shown curious fluctuations in employment figures In Australia's mining industries.

In 1035, the latest year for which official figures are available, there were nearly 70,00 persons engaged in mining of all kinds. Or these 33,113 were engaged in gold, 5,120 in silver, lead and speltes, 1,808 in copper, 4,474 in tin, and 16,833 in coal min- | Ing. +

The total figure represents 989 per 100,000 of the population.

In 1001 miners numbered 2,092 per 100.000, In 1911 the figure was 2,100 while 10 years later it had fallen to 874. In 1031 it was 004.

In some types of mining, for example, gold, silver and lead, zinc, copper and tin, the natural supplies

of the country have been gradually depleted. Other mining industries have been affected by the develop- ment of overseas competition and the growth of mechanisation.

In gold mining, however, the in- erensed price of gold has led to a surprising increase in the absorption of labour during the last five or six years. Even so, the figures for 1033 In this branch of the mining industry are very far removed from the 1901 Agures, when 70,972 persons were employed.

SOUTH AFRICA

NEW ARCHBISHOP ENTHRONED

Cape Town. The B. Rev. J. R. Barbyshire, formerly Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway, was recently enthroned Archbishop of Cape Town.

The new archbishop, who is 58, was vier-principal of Ridley Hall, Cam- bridge, from 1008 to 1913, and vicar of the Cathedral Church, Sheffold, He was con- Accrated Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway in 1931,

Rancher Earl from 1922 to 1931.

Sells Castle

Voter told he was dead-Because he was described as "deceased" in the Avon Castle, lovely Hampshire voters' list, Mr. August Meyers, a home of the 24-years-old rancher United Party election agent, was not Earle of Egmont, is about to change allowed to vote for his party's candi- hunds,

date, Mr. H. Abrahamson, who was Negotiations for its sale to Mr. contesting the Weenan, Natal, con- H. J. Colebrook, a London surveyor, stituency. Mr. Abrahamson was re- have been proccesinlg for some time, turned, and had Mr. Meyers been and an announcement about the deaf allowed to vote for him, his majority will probably be made shortly, would have pan exactly 2,000.-

Keuter.

Mr. Colebrook has offices in Old Burlington-street, W., and lives at BURMA Fulmer Hall, Buckinghamshire. He a Master of the New Forest Buck- hounds, whose kennels Are at Brockenhurst, only ten miles from Avon Castle and its 1,300 Acres of beautiful meadows and woodland.

Several bids, the highest being about £40,000, have been made in recent years for the property, but have been refused.

It has been suggested recently that the market price is between £70,000 and £80,000,

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enactment of the Rangoon Sales Representative: BANKER & CO., P.O. Box: 765, Hong Kong. Emergency Security Act by the Governor of Burma, Sir Archibald Cochrane, has been characterised as "a grave constitutional blunder" by the Myochil-party, Parliamentary Opposition group.

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The Myochit party has sent a long memorandum to the Secretary for India and Burma, the Marquess of Zeiland, urging the annulment of the

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F1103 SAYS MY HEART.

TWO BOUQUETS

MEALS IN KITCHEN White and turreted, Avon Castle will always be associated with the Act. tragedy and romance of the life of the present Earl of Egmont, Frederick The Act, which followed the recent George Moore Perceval, who is now officers certain powers of arrest with-

How rioting in Rangoon, gives police F1102-SAYS MY HEART. living in the wide open spaces of out warrant, Canada with his wife and baby son.

With his father, he lived modestly

in the castle for a few years after the

courts had decided, in 1930, that Gas Mask Fraud:

their claim to the carldom was valid.

In

They used only three or four

of the 49 rooms, did their own housework, cooked for them- selves, And had meals in kitchen.

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Villagers Paid

Gang 28. 6d. Each

West country police are investi- gating a big gas mask fraud. A gang Six years ago the father was killed of men have travelled through coun- motor smash, Frantic with try districts ahead of air raid war- grief, the young car) forsook the dens Informing villagers that in castle, and went to work as a pald

ald order to get a gas mask they must farmhand in Calgary, Canada,

He pay 2s. Gd, in advance. then married his cousin, Miss

They are belleved to have de- Geraldine Moodie, who-with tno frauded villagers of a large sum of blood of the Royal Stuarts of Scot-monty. Police have descriptions of land in her velns-was working as some of the men. n dentist's assistant,

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Mrs. Ireland, of Radipole, near They visited England carly this Weymouth said: "A man called and year but they did not settle in the told me that there was 2s. 6d. to-day. castle which has been in the passes- I refused to pay until I got my gas sion of the Egmont family since 1912, mask, but many other people I know when the ninth earl bought it.

paid."

Wife Thought Husband

In Gaol-Met Him in Cafe

After going from friend, to friend

Mr. Bernard Gillis, counsel for for three weeks in the hope of rala-Stapley, stated in court yesterday ing £250, which might secure her that Mrs. Stapley had been unable husband's release from prison, the to raise the money in so short a time, fair-haired artist wite of 60-years and, that this was Stapley's Arst old Major Gerald Stapley recently offence under the bankruptcy laws. set out for the Old Bailey, from her

"TOO WONDERFUL” Describing his conduct as diagrace- She had failed in her efforts and ful, and, warning him that if there she went to have a last glance at Her were any complaints in future he husband before as she thought he would be sent to prison, Mr. Whiteley was sentenced.

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The Common Serjeant, Mr. Cecil without her knowing it. Whiteley, KC, postponed: sentence The surprise was almost too much Until yesterday, remarking that he for her but the rushed, forward eran might be influenced if Stapley pak braced him, and exclaimed, "Darling, him debta.

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