FOOD SCHOOL OPENED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24420, 4 October 1940, Page 5

FOOD SCHOOL OPENED

NEW GENERATIONS OF CHEFS Only institution of its kind in the British Empire, the William Angliss Food Trade School at West Melbourne was officially opened recently. It has accommodation for 1000 students. Sir William Angliss, M.L.C., who performed the opening ceremony, gave £23,000 for erection of the building. A tablet commemorating Sir William Angliss’s generosity was unveiled by Sir John Harris, Education Minister. Addressing several hundred people invited to inspect the school, Sir William Angliss said that many gifts of equipment had been made fay men connected with food trades, mostly of his genei'ation. He hoped that the younger generation of such men would follow their example in helping food trade students.

Sir John Harris hoped that "the school would result in a generation of chefs who would redound to the credit of this great city of the whole of Australia.” It should be the duty of every important industry to assist technical schools with gifts of equipment. Such equipment had to be installed by the taxpayers, who did not get a penny out of it.

Among the school’s equipment are stoves of many types, a chromium kitchen—which would be the envy of every housewife, as it contains evex-y----thing that could possibly be required in cooking—bakeries with giant ovens and thousands of bread and pastry tins of different shapes, a spotless butchei’y where butchers’ apprentices will learn the intricacies of cuts and joints, laboratories for Scientific research, well-equipped lecture rooms, and a spacious light dining room, where student waiters will be trained.