MILK FOR SOLDIERS

Evening Star, Issue 22880, 11 February 1938, Page 8

MILK FOR SOLDIERS

BEER DUT DF FAVDUR AN INDIAN INNOVATION [Per United Press Association.] . WELLINGTON, February 11. Slajor T. Young, R.A.M.C., of India, arrived by the Wanganella to-day. He is on a holiday visit to the North Island. Major Young, who has made a special study of public health, said that he had been engaged in the organisation of a milk supply for the Europeans in India. The native dairying conditions were revolting, ho said, but the Europeans no longer had to reply on that source. Shorthorn cattle had been imported and crossed with native breeds to secure disease resistance, and the European dairy farms were well organised and were under strict control. The British “ Tommy ” in India could no longer be a beer-drinking soldier. Beer had been largely replaced by tea, and now tea was giving place to milk. AID the Army canteens carried supplies of iced milk, which was sold to the soldiers in penny bottles. Milk was issued free to the native troops, as it had been found essential to the health of the young soldiers.