SCHOOL OF DOMESTIC INSTRUCTION.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 10482, 20 October 1894, Page 3

SCHOOL OF DOMESTIC INSTRUCTION.

An adjourned public meeting to consider the establishment of a School of Domestic Instruction was hold last evening, at the City Council Chambers. There was a a attendance of about forty, and the chair was occupied by the Mayor of Christchurch. The Chairman stated that he had forwarded the petition and the resolutions passed at the last meeting to the Premier, from whom he had received a reply that they had been banded to the Minister of Education. No further reply had been received. The report of the committee appointed at the previous meeting was read by the Chairman, the Rev J. O’Bryen Hoare. It was, after some discussion, adopted with slight amendments. It stated that the committee had not been able .to obtain any useful information from other centres beyond the fact that successful cookery classes were established in Dunedin, in connection with the Technical School. The need of the school was shown by the number who had expressed their willingness to join. There was reason to beiievo that a suitable building could bo obtained in a cantral oositson, sad that a good manager a'nd instructors could be engaged. Assuming that there would be a grant in aid, in addition to the £. for £ subsidy on contributions for technical instruction, the committee recommended that a school should be established, to be called the “ Christchurch School of Domestic Instruction that instruction should be given in cookery, laundry and general housework, and, when firmly established, in cutting, making and repairing children’s and other clothing; that a year’s training should complete a course; that instruction should be given during the usual school terms; that arrangements’ should be made for evening classes when necessary; that higher classes should be formed for cookery and laundry work if necessary, for which an extra fee should ha charged; that a subscription of 5s should entitle the contributor to a vote for one year; that a donation of £5 should entitle the given to a vote during life-time; that the fees per term should be not less than 5s for any two subiects, and 7a 6d for three subjects; that the staff at commencing should consist of a manager and two instructors; that the school should be managed by a president and a committee of eight ladies and four gentlemen, to bo elected at tho annual meeting to be held in November; four ladies and two gentlemen to retire annually. The preliminary expenses, it was estimated, would be .£55. and the annual working expenses £345. The income would be derived from the grant in aid, fees, subscriptions and the proceeds from laundry work, and the sale of cooked food. It was recommended that certificates should be awarded, on the passing of an examination, by a competent examiner. The following were elected a committee : —Mosdatnea Turret!, Mathias, Easton, Heaton Rhodes. Bowen, Scott and Lane, Miss Gibson, Messrs A. Cuff and W. Chrystall, the Rev J. O’Bryen Hoare and Dr Anderson; It was decided that the Mayor of Christchurch, for the time being, shobld be president. Subscription forms were handed round, and the meeting terminated.