A COOKERY SCHOOL.

Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11717, 28 August 1906, Page 3

A COOKERY SCHOOL.

An aggrieved restaurant keeper complained to the Minister for Labor yesterday that no schools of cookery existed in connection with the technical schools. Plumbers, he pointed out, were obliged to secure a certificate'of proficiency, carpenters had to serve an apprenticeship, but anybody could go into the country, and come back a cook or a chef if he bad a suit of white overalls, and be had extended opportunities for tampering with the public's digestion in towns of the size of Wellington. In Germany, where diplomas in cookery were granted, there were about four chemists, but Wellington had about fifty. The Minister was rather favorably impressed with the idea that there should be seme guarantee of efficiency before a man was allowed to go abroad and pose before a hungry crowd as a specialist in his art. He thought representation should be made to the directors of the technical schools, with a view to doing something in the direction indicated. The matter, however, was more within the scope of the Minister for Education.