FREE SUPPLY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 45, 23 February 1937, Page 8

FREE SUPPLY.

MILK IN SCHOOLS.

DAILY TO CHILDREN.

GOVERNMENT BEAKS COST. The Government's Dominion-wide scheme to supply milk to school children win be inaugurated on Monday, with the reopening of schools. The State will bear the whole coet, the organisation for the Auckland area being in the hands of a committee comprised of representatives of several local institutions. It is estimated that 1800 gallons a day will be needed.

All primary schools aa far north ae New Lynn and as far south as Papatoetoe will be scved, while also arrangements are being made to include many Catholic and other private schools and kindergartens which have applied to the committee. On the North Shore the Birkenhead and. Northcote, Devonport, Stanley Bay and Vauxhall, Takapuna and Milford eide schools, will be supplied. Post-primary echools are also entitled to apply to receive milk. Each child will have half a pint of milk daily in a sealed bottle, to be drunk through a straw.

Last year a smaller scheme was operated by a sub-committee of the Auckland City Council with the aid of a Government subsidy. The committee then comprised the Hon. B. Martin, M.L.C., Sir George Richardson and Mr. E. F. Andrews, of the City Council, with two members of the Auckland Milk Council, Messrs. G. W. Hutchison and A. C. Trouadale, co-opted. This personnel forms the basis for the new scheme, while other members are Mr. C. R. Munro, representing the Auckland Education Board. Mr. T. W. Arthur, the League of Health for New Zealand Youth, and Mr. W. H. Fortune, the Auckland School Committee*' Association. A representative of the Auckland Suburban Local Bodies' Association has aloo been asked to join.

Negotiations have been proceeding for some time between the committee, vendors and producers regarding the price of milk, and several difficulties encountered are hoped soon to have been overcome. The prices and margins to be paid and received by the various parties will later be considered by the Milk Council, which will also be" responsible for ensuring that an adequate supply of milk ie available. ' .