School Milk
Sir,—The first thing my child asks for on arriving home after school each day is invariably milk. It is foolish to expect growing children to last a strenuous day at school with no more nourishment than water, sandwiches, fruit, and cake I can only agree, after reading of the shortage of text-books in primary schools, that the £750.000 spent annually on providing free milk to .school-children could be put to much better use by the Education Department. If free milk is not to be available to all who want it. then it should be a charge on those who receive it. It should be financed by the local county council or the school committee. Alternatively, children could be made to pay cash for the milk they drink, thus ensuring an end to the waste of milk and giving future wage-earners valuable practice tn the handling of money.—Yours, etc., M. S. STARKY. Amberley, May 2, 1961.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29504, 4 May 1961, Page 3
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157School Milk Press, Volume C, Issue 29504, 4 May 1961, Page 3
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