MILK RATION

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 103, 3 May 1934, Page 6

MILK RATION

POPULAR IN HUTT VALLEY

' Through tho enterprise of a private I iirm tho two public secondary school's, sonle of the piivate'schoolsj and many lof the primal y schools aro being supplied with a daily ration of milk at a i educed rate. •_ I ' Mr. A« McFadyon, principal of the Potone Memorial Technical College, icporting on the matter, states: —"A milk-vending firm has extended to this school its offer. Tho school iccoivos a half-pint bottle of milk > daily for any pupil wanting it at the cost of 4d a week. There iire nojv over 200 children |in the Hutt Valley availing themselves iof milk at this special price.

"That this scheme is appreciated by the paients"iis .shown by the fact that the day after receiving a circular about it tho parents provided the money for tho supply to be started immediately. Tho number of half-pint bottles taken at the collogo was ieighty-fivb *■' th 6 first week, rising to 120;- iit ono week. It varies slightly froiji wdelt ,to week. "The,girls in 113 aro carrying out a 1 dxperimeut to sec if tlio extra milkj Tesults in increased'giowtli shown by'| height and weight.. Scales , were for-, warded by tho Health Department for .this purpose, and the engineering department is devising a more accurate method "of measuring height.' "' ' girls taking milk' and ten not taking it are weighed and measured at foitmghOy intervals, and graphs plotled to sKow changes. A similar gioup of boys'is being taken, and tho results should prove of interest lnot only to tho girls doing the work,- but also to othcis,"