THE MILK QUESTION.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 17 July 1917, Page 6

THE MILK QUESTION.

To the Editor. Sir, —As the milk supply in Taihape is almost nil, I think it is time something was done in the matter, and I would suggest that the settlers near Taihape, and also those away hack, be asked to bring in, say, a/ bottle of new milk when they come into Taihape. A place could be mentioned for them to leave the milk, and the mothers of babies could send and take delivery. Even should there be only a few bottles given by the settlers it will be a great deed of kindness, and it is deeds of kindness that go to make life brighter and happier and by no one should ever he forgotten. None of us know when old England, in years to come, perhaps;: will have to take up arms against a cruel foe, and our little babies that are in want now, will be, when grown to manhood and womanhood, human monuments —not monuments of waste such as granite or stone, but monuments that can shoulder a gun and go up in a flying machine, or down in a submarine. We are the monuments that Earl Kitchener would have been proud of had he lived. Christ went bare-footed, footsore, and feet bleeding to help the poor. Surely our clergy will do something to help what they were' once themselves —a little child. This would be a greater honour than fighting for six o’clock closing. I am, etc., J. T. DAVEY.