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was employed to introduce cookery as a subject in 1889. She was promoted each year and in 1891 she was supervising the teaching and specifying the cookery curriculum. In the following year the school began to train new teachers buying portable cookery facilities. She resigned in 1896 after a dispute
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when she was visiting twelve different locations. The teaching of cookery that she had created continued managed by district inspectors. In 1905 five women began to train to teac cookery with Hannah Rankin including
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