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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 57, 11 March 1904, Page 2

A Inngh wns raised nt the prize distribution ceremony in connection Willi the Auckland Technical College. on Tuesday, hv Mr Hnume, Mil.l!, (says tli<; \.Z. Herald), lie uns urging tin; desirableness of making certificates of competency n sine ijini noil in (lie obtaining of employment by workmen in tlie skilled trades, and he went on to say that the same principle might be adopted in regard to the state of matrimony. They might laugh, be said, but it was a matter worth considering wlieher women should not be expected 1o possess a practical knowledge of cookery and other departments of domestic management before being considered eligible to become wives. If a man was required to have u certificate to entitle him to a position in a workshop, surely the same sjstem might be applied to marriage ns the most important and serious of all undertakings. The savings that you make ta huylng at the Mc!|b!ourno Clothing Co. will amount to a considerable sum in the course of a year.*