MILK AND INFANTS.

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 12, 13 July 1918, Page 4

MILK AND INFANTS.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Your leader on the above subject this_ evening is very opportune, although it is couched in mild terms. Evidently hope deferred' is making even your heart eick. » The public, too, are also beginning to despair of ever getting any relief from this deplorable state of the milk supply. The' everlasting sidestepping tactics which have been exhibited by the various authorities who have professed to Be frying to solve the milk problem for the la-st ten years almost make one doubt their sincerity. As you have pointed out, the matter is one of vital importance to the infant life of this city, and now, not next year, is the time to deal with it, It is such a serious matter that the Minister for Public Health should have taken steps to remedy things long before this; he surely has the power if only he will exercise it, to insist that there shall be no milkless days in Wellington. The position h intolerable, and should not be allowed to continue any longer, or else the Chinese Consul, when he returns to China will be able to tell his compatriots that "Wellington people starve their infants rather than spend a few pounds to bring them up decently."—l am, etc., AJAX. 12th July.