WOMEN COOKS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 107, 8 May 1941, Page 6

WOMEN COOKS

Women cooks cannot replace men in military camps. Xo doubt Mr. Coates' good look around was confined to officers' messes, where tße utensils required for cooking are of a size quite manageable by women, but he should take a better look round the men's messes. The kitchen in which I am engaged provides meals for 900 men three times a day and that is what I call a mansized job when it comes to cooking. I am no weakling, but after a day m the kitchen of liftinp and lugging around huge container? of vegetables from the floor to the stove, from the stove back to the floor, and bending over ovens, handling 1G to 17 big trays of joints. I emerge from the cook house feclinp like a vrung-out rag. ready u> turn in. and if any woman cook can go throuch the same days work and come out with her curls and make-up the same as she went in. 11l say she's a better man than I am. Gunga Din. and quite welcome to the job and also the abuse of quartermasters and troops which go with it. COME AND GET IT.