FREE MILK IN SCHOOLS.
TO THE BPITOK. Sir, —It was with interest that I read the account in Monday’s ‘ Star ’ regarding the supply of free milk to school children. This issue of milk, I am sure, helps considerably to build a future- physically strong nation of men and women. The Health Department is to be commended on such an undertaking, but the only part of the account that I took exception to was the last sentence. In this particular sentence it was revealed that this magnificent gesture was made possible, financially, by the general taxpayers. As a recently married man who has been fortunate enough to purchase a house, and is now trying to_ limit his expenditure, I find that children are receiving, at my expense, free milk, irrespective of their parents’ income. Link this fact with a few minutes’ thought on the detrimental effect of a sunny Saturday afternoon spent at the picture theatre, and it would appear that more profitable expenditure could be made of the taxes collected. Perhaps I am the selfish type, but it may be that others have not'thought along these lines.—T am, etc., March 3. Taxpayer.
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Evening Star, Issue 26042, 5 March 1947, Page 8
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192FREE MILK IN SCHOOLS. Evening Star, Issue 26042, 5 March 1947, Page 8
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