FABULOUS SALARY.
LADY DRESS DESIGNER’S £15,000. DISPUTE CAUSES DISMISSAL. A salary of £15,000, plus commission, with holidays four times a year, including six weeks in the summer and £l5 15s expenses daily for fashionable race meetings, and expenses for four visits to Paris yearly for a week each, with six gowns a year, averaging £25 each, were, among the terms on which Paquins, Limited, the West End dressmakers, engaged their dress designer, Mrs Fox-Pitt, in 1923, but cancelled it at a moment’s notice in 1925, the directors alleging that she secretly charged five apprentices a premium of £25, in addition to £3O each which the. firm charged. Mrs Fox-Pitt asserts that the directors assented to her charging the extra £2O for distribution among supervisors to induce them to teach apprenticesi thoroughly.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5076, 17 January 1927, Page 3
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131FABULOUS SALARY. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5076, 17 January 1927, Page 3
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