MILK SUPPLIES IN SCHOOLS

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28894, 14 May 1959, Page 11

MILK SUPPLIES IN SCHOOLS

Nearly 3m Gallons Distributed There was an increase of 60,688 gallons of milk distributed under the school milk scheme last year, bringing the total for the year to 2.890,311 gallons, costing £646,712. according to the annual report of the New Zealand Milk Board. The cost included £304 for milk for cocoa making and £4635 for malted milk powder. “The board has maintained that the full demand for school milk should be provided for in nominated quantities,” says the report For a number of years only 75 per cent, of school milk requirements had been budgeted for with reliance on sufficient surplus milk being made available. Further representations had been made to the Government, but there was still a policy of providing 75 per cent, of requirements in nominated quantities. During the year 65.43 pet cent of school milk supplies was standardised to 3 per cent, butter-

sianaaraisea io o per cent, uuucifat content, and 31.49 per cent was homogenised. By the end of the year there were five treatment stations—at Auckland, Hastings, Palmerston North, Lower Hutt and Dunedin—homogenising school milk. “From time to time reference . has been made to the efforts , needed to ensure that school milk i is properly handled so that it reaches children in good condi- . tion and adequately safeguarded , from the effects of both light and ' temperature,” says the report Experiments carried out had ’ confirmed the value of properly enclosed vehicles and gave Ideas . for the most suitable types of , stands for keeping milk at schools, the report says. The board was urging the covering of all vehicles * used for the transport of school ' milk in major areas. “The handling of milk in schools ' must continue to be a problem, J as so much depends on the eircum--1 stances in the individual schools," says the report.

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