LIKE HALF PINTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 225, 23 September 1938, Page 9

LIKE HALF PINTS.

AUCKLAND CHILDREN.

THE DAILY MILK RATION.

REDUCTION MOVE IN SOUTH.

Auckland children are capable of emptying a half-pint bottle of milk without much trouble, according to members of the Auckland Metropolitan Milk Council.

At to-dayV meeting Mr. A. Bosser stated that in the South there was a move to provide the children with quarter-pint bottles. Apparently they eould not cope with half-pints.

The chairman, Mr. I. J. Goldstine. said that at a recent meeting of the Milk in Schools Committee, tjie lieadiiasters had stated that there was no serious wastage. and they saw no reason to cut town the supply.

Mr. C. J. Lovegrove: Perhaps the quality of the Auckland milk ie better.

The chairman: If children can get out of drinking milk at home they will do it.

Mr. H. F. W. Meikle: Not at the North Shore They clean the bottles up without anv trouble.

The chairman: Tliey will drink it lip at school without a murmirr. I heard of a lad who had to be forced to drink milk at home, but when he saw the others with their bottles at school he soon fell into line.

Mr. Lovegrove quoted a similar case, adding that "now they couldn't keep him off it."