6 FEBRUARY 1971, Page 24

Agency ads

Sir: I was very interested to read the replies to Skinflint's article on Employment Agencies (23 Janu- ary).

I myself gave up using agencies years ago when I found that time after time when answering an agen- cy's advertisement in a paper or in the window of the agency that the job concerned, usually highly paid and glamorous, had `just' gone but would I be interested in giving my particulars as they do have other vacancies on their books (usually very very dull and very very bad- ly paid). This happened several times with more than one agency. I may be just unlucky or too sus- picious but I would like to suggest that Skinflint runs a small private inquiry to find out the whole truth.

Sue Harvey 31 Edge Hill Court, Edge Hill, London sw19