DOMESTIC SERVANTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 49, 27 February 1937, Page 16

DOMESTIC SERVANTS.

TRAINING COLLEGE IN DENMARK.

<rivi. n5 - rU n ,0n m home economics, as gnen in Denmark, is more applicable to the domest lc situation in Australia and New Zealand than the same tvpe j ' ch 18 carried out' in the United States," sa id Mi ss Catherine AlacGibbon in an interview in Svdney. Miss Mac Gibbon, who holds the "degree of Bachelor of Home Science from Ot a™o University, New Zealand, and the degree of Master of Science from Chicago Uni\ersity, and who was formerly on the staff of the Palmerston North Technical School, passed through Svdnev on her way back to New Zealand, where she will take up a post as .lecturer to the foods and cookery department of the Home Science School, Otago University. Miss Mac Gibbon has been abroad for 17 months, studying domestic science and home economy in Great Britain, the Lnited States, and Denmark, and is impressed with home economy instruction methods in Denmark. "In Denmark," she said, "I visited two colleges engaged in instructing teachers of home economics, and another college which takes girls from 18 years onwards and gives them a training in cookery, household science, literature, etc. Particularly interesting was the college for the training of domestic servants. This course entails three periods of six months each, and the training is highly practical. The fees are very low, only £2 per month for residence in the" college, which is subsidised by the Government. All the food cooked by the trainees is sold in four shops attached to the college, and there is also a restaurant, in which the trainees act as waitresses. Public laundry work is taken in and done on the premises, and this brings in £400 per month. The college even houses 14 babies, in age ranging from 11 weeks to two years, who are kept there so-that the trainees may learn how to mind children. This particular college, which is situated in Copenhagen, has been in existence for 30 years."