Milk-In-Schools Scheme Defended
(New Zealand Press Association)
WANGANUI, August 22.
Many children would fail to get enough milk unless it was provided at schools, in the view of Dr. D. D. Adams, senior research officer of the Medical Research Council.
He was replying to a statement by the Wanganui Education Board’s chairman (Mr A. Gordon) that it was not necessary for children to have milk at school.
“Mr Gordon speaks as though he were a qualified nutritionist, which he is not,” said Dr. Adams. “We do have such experts in the country—people who have studied medicine for six years and then specialised in nutrition. The most eminent is Dr. Muriel Bell, who is adamant that ail New Zealand children need half a pint
of milk at morning play-time to reduce dental decay, sustain attentiveness and enable them to grow to full stature. “Milk is the best single food a child can get, and it is particularly needed by the growing adolescents in our high schools. “Surveys by our National Dental School Show that without school milk many children would fail to get enough.”
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31145, 23 August 1966, Page 3
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