The Archive · 1926

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To the Editer of the "Noxrm-CuiNa Day "News"

Sim—The supply of competent. Chinese cooks has not kept pace with the demand created by the injerease in the resident foreign poputiation. Really competent cooks have been comparatively rare at all times, An advertisement in your issue of to-day, emanating from a Brivish "chef-cook" in want of a position, wives me an idea.

Why does he not make an attempt te start a school of cookery and endeavour to inculcate into the would-be Chinese ego the rudiments,

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