School Milk

Press, Volume C, Issue 29501, 1 May 1961, Page 3

School Milk

Sir, —Few would deny the nutritional value of milk for children and adults alike. What puzzles me is why some schools, e.g., the Amberley School, do not supply milk even for those children who like it. Who decides whether the children at a particular school are to be supplied? Having used every underhand trick imaginable to ensure that fny child likes to drink a pint or two each day, I was amazed when informed that Amberley children simply do not like the stuff. My child likes it whether it is still warm from the cow, pasteurised in Christchurch, made into ice cream, coloured with raspberry, flavoured with cocoa, or “all shook up” with vanilla. It hurts me to think that the Welfare State is providing free milk to other people’s children, but not mine.—Yours, etc., . M. S. STARKY. Amberley, April 10, 1961. [The secretary-manager of the Canterbury Education Board (Mr W. P. Spencer) replied that it*is the normal procedure for the headmaster to ascertain from parents their wishes regarding milk for their children and for the appropriate amount of milk to be ordered. Any decision not to have milk supplied to the school would be made at local level, i.e.. by the school committee and the headmaster ]