In England, the Education Department conditionally wants aid to Cookery Instruction in connection with State Aided Primary Schools under the following stipulations:  what provision as to buildings, &c., has been made for Cookery Instruction in accordance with the conditions prescribed.  The Department then grants aid at the rate of four shillings per head in day schools, and two shillings per head in evening, or, as they are sometimes called, “continuation” schools, on the number of pupils in the fourth and higher standards presented for examination in Cookery.  The classes are taught by ordinary Primary School Teachers who have been trained in Cookery work, and have obtained certificates of qualifications.  Under the London School Board, Cookery classes are established in different centres in connection with a large number of the schools; and to a less extent similar classes are organized by the School Boards of some of the larger country towns.  Grants from the Education Department are annually obtained for the work by these schools.

In New South Wales, the teaching of Cookery in connection with the Public Schools has long been advocated; and about ten years ago, special lectures on the subject, and demonstrations, were given under authority; these did not, however, then lead to any practical results.  Early in 1886, Mrs. Fawcett Story, who had previously taught Cookery successfully in connection with the Sydney Technical College, was appointed, on probation, lecturer and demonstrator in Cookery and Domestic Economy to the students at Hurlstone Training College, the object being to qualify such students as Instructors of Cookery for schools in which they would in the future be employed as teachers.  After three months successful work at Hurlstone, Mrs. Story’s appointment was confirmed and she has continued to carry on the work.  At first appointed “Instructress,” she now takes rank as “Directress of Cookery.”

In 1889 a Cookery class was established at the Fort Street Public School, and this proving successful, the instruction was extended to other schools.  Three classes of work were embodied in the plan arranged to be carried out, namely:—­

* 1.  An Elementary Cookery Course, * * 2.  A Plain, or Intermediate Cookery Course, * * 3.  A Teachers’ Course, * and at the close of 1890 the numbers receiving instruction had reached 270.

In 1891 the work was extended to the Sydney and Suburban Schools.  Classes were also established in connection with those of Bathurst and Goulburn, and arrangements for training a class of Pupil Teachers in this important work were made and carried out.  In 1891 the number under Cookery Instruction in connection with the school reached 757, and during the year 1892 arrangements were also made for extending Cookery Instruction among the masses of the people on the basis already described.

It should also be remembered that classes for Cookery Instruction have for some years past been established in connection with the Technical College in Sydney, and more recently in the similar colleges of the larger towns and centres.