NO MILK FOR CHILDREN
POWDER AS SUBSTITUTE
[per press association.]
WELLINGTON, June 22
“Milk powder will not be used in any place where there is fresh milk available,” said Hon. P. Fraser, Minister for Education, when referring in an interview this evening to the milk-for-schools scheme. “It is correct to say that in many parts of the country the milk-in-schools scheme, which is benefiting daily 80,000 children in the Dominion, is meeting with difficulty in supplies. One of the reasons for this has been the untoward season and the other is that the milk suppliers of various country towns wore not prepared for such an increased demand on their supply. The result was simply that winter milk was not available. It is expected that in a few weeks, these difficulties will be overcome to a very large extent.
“The practice set by the department in obtaining: milk, wherever possible, from certified tuberculintested herds, with pasteurisation in addition, has been adhered to up to the present,” he said. “It is true that the substitution of dried whole-milk where fresh milk is not available is under consideration, but at present developments are only, in the experimental stage. Various wihole-milk powders, including maltcd-milk powder, are being examined by the Health Department. Samples are being analysed’ and reported on. These substitutes will, not be used unless it is established that they are a good, wholesome food, approximating as far as possible in nutritive value to fresh milk. In the native school in I-loka-anu, Dr. H. B. Turbott, Medical Officer of Health for Waikato, is supervising the provision of whole malted milk. T am informed it is impossible to find supplies of fresh milk for the native children there, so whole malted milk was substituted. I feel there is every reason to believe that the trial will be successful from the nutritive point of view, but Quite definitely milk powder will not be used on any place where there is fresh milk available.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 June 1937, Page 2
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