DOMESTIC SCIENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 215, 7 September 1912, Page 9

DOMESTIC SCIENCE.

•.: COMPULSORY TRAINING URGED p, A 'REMEDY FOE PRESE>fT r; l". DIFFICULTIES. :., • ©7 TSlegrapti.—Parliamentary B»porter.^ -:'. \\T-:LI.IXi.TO.X. Friday. ■' i A petition . signed by Hip Professor of I . .Some Science, lit Otajjn Cnivereity. the | ."ptesident of the Dunwlin F.upcnics Kd«i.j.cation Society and others interested in -■■-'aicial work lin* boon placed before Par- . .."Jiinhpiit. containing ?;i£r™'slion.- for reme"dyiag the difficulty '<•( setting well I traiiiptl (ioninstic*. It in nu?2?fited that | k . the dnartii of ijomesti.- KorvcMits is due; ._chif(Ty r« the excessively long hours of i •..employment ami infivrf!':rVin-y' of rrla\a- ! :--.tian---a trainiiij hostel s'.i'owld. staler.! jvthe petition, be established in connection j j-aritlr-esch- techs collrze in even- large j .-.'.."City and town, vrhere students may board Mid undergo a course of instruction in ■ cooking, laundry work aim house man.- I lament. Dome instruction should be I It,. a compulsory subject for all girls | .folding junior free places in technical j y.WUeges and high schools, and compul- j ;.- fory continuation classes in domestic! : Z\ UC ? -should be established for girls •;. wno do not pas* into secondary school?. / *ach hostel should have a. creche at-...-Willed, where working mothers could ;,; «avc tteir children and the students ■ - -J™ 1,1 the care of infants. The petitionAg> fiß that thej- recognise that, to carry ■'■'■SL proposals, legislation will be fixin S tfee llours o£ domestic Si-v" ,1 dpt enniDiiig the wages of •■'. " - '-"=_____ I