HEALTH CAMPAIGN

Hokitika Guardian, 6 May 1929, Page 7

HEALTH CAMPAIGN

SYDNEY. April 25. Sydney liay boon honouring that-imli>-ptMis!i!>*e .li’lui!, in** cov, in il week’s in wiii» it i.ie < r.tlinsilistic little .Minister !.»• Health, Dr Arthur, and his cohorts luive been tousling one another’s licnlth in milk, ■and •impressing the public \fiitii the necessity for drinking more of tin’s precious fluid. The consumption of more milk am 1 less beer in the community is one of ])r Arthur’s tojvny,} ideals. He seizes everv opportunity to preach it. dmt the publicans do not appear to be. in tfjling their schedules Dr Arthur -looks- bo the day when Sydney- infill erect a- monument to that nob'|e buculhPlifti.nnal the cow', and.

when tin* grim hand of Time 'arrests him. place his ashes beneath toe effigy with some such epitaph as, “Here lies one who tried to give the children more milk.” Thus one can picture little Dr Arthur, with .all the zeal of a reformer. Physically. Dr Arthur is to all outward appearance a rather •poor advertisement for Ids health “stunts.” but if ho can make the community well, and shut up the overcrowded hospitals, he will be ineflnbly happy. As a matter of iaet. most Sydney households would take more milk, either as a beverage or in their culinary dishes, hut the problem is one of cheaper production and distribution. This is whore Dr Arthur ha> to get down to tin tacks, lo preach more milk and less beer is one thin-T but to reduce the cost of milk and make its use more popular by 11,0,0 | efficient methods of dairying and distribution is quite another matter.