MILK FOR SCHOOLS

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31343, 13 April 1967, Page 14

MILK FOR SCHOOLS

Changes In Attitudes Protests about the abolition of milk in schools are “clotting”, according to some members of the Canterbury School Committees’ Association. Last evening Mrs E. Dutton said she would like to know how many parents still supported the association’s demand for full reinstatement of the scheme. “There was a great furore at the time but this seems to have died out almost completely”, she said. Late replies received by the association to its questionnaire ranged from a Burnside suggestion that milk be supplied until children cut their second teeth to a St. Martins report that 13 parents favoured reinstatement of milk in schools and 104 were it

It was reported that the School Committees’ Federation conference last week saw the best prospect of success in a claim that milk should be supplied up to standard 2. There was a protracted discussion among the 14 delegates present on whether the association should persist in its earlier claim for full reinstatement compromise on the claim for supply up to standard 2, or “wait until the next General Election”. Eventually the executive was asked to watch developments and recommend action "when appropriate”.