MILK FOR CHILDREN

Taranaki Daily News, 19 September 1940, Page 2

MILK FOR CHILDREN

DOCTOE GIVES OPINION "The benefit received by the school children from the milk ration far outweighs any benefit that could be gained by the addition that it would make to cheese production," remarked Dr. W. M. Thomson at the meeting of the Taranaki Education Board yesterday. It would be a retrograde step, he said, if milk were not made available to school children. The remark was made following the reading of a letter from the Kev. J. H. Bailey, secretary of the Opunake District High School committee, stating that recommendations concerning increased production and the encouragement of that phase of war eftort among the children in their agricultural clubs had been discussed by the committee and a suggestion that, so far as country schools were concerned, the milk ration should be withdrawn and the milk diverted to factories for cheesemaking had becn approved by the committee. It was felt, he said, that no hardship would be suffered by the children of the country schools, and that the large quantity of milk thus diverted over the whole Dominion would mean an appreciable increase in the Dominion's output of cheese or other products. Members of the board were of opinion that as the milk was of real value to the health of children the board should not interfere. On the motion of Dr. Thomson and Mr. W. H. Jones it was accordingly resolved to inform the committee that the board did not favour the suggestion.