THE MORNING MILK

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 230, 29 September 1942, Page 2

THE MORNING MILK

Allow me to sympathise with "They £■ ,Who Also Serve" in his misfortune: ,on that disastrous morning when he had to go to work without. havW-' had milk on his porridge. I wonder £ if those now fighting under the' shadow of the.Pyramids ever have tap ,go to work without milk on their?" • porridge. If they do, I have hotnoticed that any of them written to the paper about it. When a boy aged between seven and win. I Hiving in one of the bleakest of the country over which raw windswept in from the southern *g«:8s ♦through frost, rain, hail, sleet and? snow, I travelled one mile and iM ! half for the milk, and placed it on the" table every working morning later that 6.45. Never since thenfe t did I realise that action to be one® •not of an ordinary boy, but off®.# creature of heroic mould, untfl- T®' heard the moaning and groanW*£ going on about the hardship of firaS® gate delivery of milk. Shortly afb*& the war began our milkman jne, "I have volunteered for -theS front, an old man is taking overtfe'n: run, will you help us by going the front* gate for your milk?* iU said certainly. I am crippled, and never pass "a day without suffering severe rheumatic pains, and am oS •enough to have a grandson in the Air Training Cadets. In such tircnifc." stances I consider myself wen : qualified to assess just how mudt sympathy is due to those nate people who have to go to thWS front gates every morning for tEft* milk. J.W.H^;