THE GOSPEL OF MILK.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19857, 30 January 1928, Page 7

THE GOSPEL OF MILK.

HEALTH MINISTER'S VIEWS. MOVEMENT IN SYDNEY, [moM oim own- correspondent. ] SYDNEY, Jan. -20. In trying to empty the hospitals, and to prevent sickness ancl disease, instead of attempting to cure the community's ills, the New South Wales Minister of Health, Dr. Arthur, reminds one of the little man who takes on a big man's job. For he is a man of small physique, but with all the high idealism of the zealous reformer. His gospel, in short, is more milk and less beer, more fruit and less sweetstuffs. He has now plunged into the gigantic task of trying to obtain a better and cheaper milk supply for the metropolis of Sydney. Dr. Arthur hopes, before long, to be able to supply milk to all schools, so that children can purchase a half-pint for a penny. It is not inconceivable that pennies given to youngsters by their fond parents for milk will be spent, without a twinge of conscience, on lollies, but that is by the way. The little doctor also hopes to make cheaper fruit available for the school children. If Dr. Arthur can by these and other methods bring health tt the people and ease the hospitals of theii staggering loads of patients and<debts, he will nave earned a monument more lasting than brass.