DOMESTIC SCIENCE

Thames Star, Volume LVI, Issue 14324, 10 September 1920, Page 3

DOMESTIC SCIENCE

AN ELOQUENT PLEA.

FOR BETTER SYSTEM.

(Press Association). I

AUCKLAND; Thursday:. An eloquent pleai was-made'by Airs 1 F. E Baiumiie at,,tli© Tteidlinicial Scihool Confea-en'Cie to-day foa^ better' training ■pif girlsiujWQiikijaithonie. rJ3iei present domestic leconoffny teaching in sctools was largely a faro©. About- 7000. of thie girls who left sdiool received, no secondary education, and went into a blind alley of ,occai)pa,tions in shops, • factories and office®;-Men ikini©w nothing aibout the' ipi'iotper education of girls and women should haw a represeaitative on the Educati'oai, Boards and "other administrative 'boidiijeis of school managers. Tihe Stat© -iraust undertake th© training; of girls in home management if overburdened mothers woiuild; get any relief. Without siwsh relief it was hopeless to talk about t3ie dealiningj birthrate. The vocation of home assistant or domiesth& mottaer' and child. The girls that nurse tihe whole future of the a'ace depends on tiie well'b^ingt of tlie motihr and cfeld. * Thei girls should h\& instructed in the whole science of home management to ensure the nourishment and mnintenianoe of pihjsiqe in children for good oita- ' zenship. The scope ranged^ far beyond cookery. The confea-'encte/ adopted ai motion that, the ,boards. of managers of schools must include at least oney woman. *.