FELICITATING THE COOK.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 881, 29 July 1910, Page 3

FELICITATING THE COOK.

; ; INTBEESTIM'SEECHES.'';;''''.;-.''. Ail admirably cooked little dinner which was given'by the Girls' Cookery class at ■tin Wellington Technical School to .the. members' ot" the School Board on Wednesday served as the occasion for some interesting speeches on the subject of technical education generally, and of the culinary art in particular.'. As Mr. David Kobertson remarked; when endorsing Mr. T. Bollinger's •felicitous references to the dinner and to the fair young cooks, "doctors and lawyers would have very little to do if every wife knew how to cook."

Mr. Robert Lee (chairman ot the Education Board) enlarged upon tho importance of laying the foundations of health and good digestion by giving" more attention to tho comfort of children attending the schools. The conventional lunch of bread and butter, or dry sandwiches, was not a suitable meal for them", and ' although they themselves had faretl.no better in their ronug days, that was no reason why u better condition of things should not prevail in the future. He thought that if children could purchase for a trifling sum a more appetising and sustaining repast they lvould benefit both in mind and body. . .' Mr. Held, in support, said that the wisdom of. such a scheme as had been mentioned by the previous speaker had been realised by tho authorities at Welling-ton College, where a good hot lunch could be procured at a small cost. Mr. J. G. AV. Aitken paid a warm compliment, to Miss Prior and her assistants ior the manner in which the cookery classes were.conducted. He judged.that a cookery certificate from Miss Prior would be worthy of respect. Mr. J. P. Luke, M.P., referring to current developments with regard to the control of technical education, said that the Minister for Education would possibly alter, the present system to the extent that the burden .of responsibility would be largely cast upon the local authority. He thought it would , be a mistake to add further burdens to their present liabilities. The New Zealand sy,stem of coeducation would stand comparison with that of any other country. ■ Every influence should be brought to bear upon attempts to starve technical education. (Hear, hear.)