MILK FOR CHILDREN

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22211, 11 September 1935, Page 15

MILK FOR CHILDREN

DISTRIBUTION AT SCHOOLS HINT OF GOVERNMENT AID DISCUSSION IN HOUSE [BY TELEGRAPH —SPECIAL REPORTER] WELLINGTON, Tuesday The Government's financial proposals this session are likely to include a scheme for the distribution of milk to schoolchildren, probably on a subsidy basis. A hint to this effect was given by the Minister of Health, Sir Alexander Young, in an interjection when Mr. 1). G. Sullivan (Labour —Avon) was speaking during the Address-in-Reply debate in the House of Representatives to-day. Mr. Sulli van said one of the results of the depression w&s undernourishment among the children of men who had been thrown out of employment. The Minister of Health had stated that there was less malnutrition among schoolchildren than there was in the past, but the reports of his own health officers said that there had been an increase among schoolchildren of practically all the notifiable diseases. The Minister: That is not borne out by the records of inspection. Mr. Sullivan: Well, I doubt the correctness of that statement. Itegret was expressed by Mr. Sullivan that the Minister, in conjunction with tho Minister of Education, had not inaugurated a scheme for tho distribution of milk to schoolchildren. A deputation had waited on the Minister of Health with a request along those lines and the Minister had led its members to believe that he was sympathetic. The Minister: So he is. Mr. Sullivan: Tho Minister's sympathy has not beeu translated into action. Tho Minister: It will be in due course. Mr. Sullivan added that although a distribution of milk to schoolchildren would be beneficial it would not meet the whole problem, because it would not provide for the needs of very young children.

FEW IMMIGRANTS LAST YEAR'S SMALL TOTAL ONLY ONE RECEIVES AID [llY TELEGRAPH —SI'ECIAL REPORTER] WELLINGTON, Tuesday Only one solitary immigrant received Government assistance in coming to New Zealand during the last financial year, according to tho annual report of the Department of Immigration, which was tabled in the House of Representatives to-day. The position is almost astonishing when it is compared with that of 1926-27, when the Dominion gained over 11,000 new settlers by assisted immigration. The one immigrant who received assistance last year was a boy of 16 whose parents had already settled in New Zealand. The department's recent activities, according to the report, have been in the direction of recovering debts due on passage-money loans from previous years. However, full-fare immigrants are still trickling into the Dominion, last year's total of 490 being slightly in advance of that of the previous year.

TIMBER EXPORT INDUSTRY r IMPORTANCE QF QUALITY PROVISION FOR CONTROL [by TELEGRAPH —SPECIAL REPORTER] WELLINGTON, Tuesday The maintenance of a high standard in timber exports from the Dominion is the object of the Products Export Amendment Bill, notico of which was given by the Minister of Lands, Sir Alfred Ransom, in the House of Representatives this afternoon. Sir Alfred explained in an interview that the purpose of the bill was to provide for adequate control of the timber export industry in view of the increase in exports from New Zealand. Southland beech was becoming popular in England for motor body-building and the export of rimu and other timbers to Australia was growing annually. It was essential that there should be no falling off in the quality of exports, and the bill was being brought forward with that end in view.

INSTITUTE FOR BLIND RATING EXEMPTION BILL [BY TELECRAPH —SPECIAL REPORTER] WELLINGTON, Tuesday The New Zealand Institute for the Blind Rating Exemption Bill was read a first time in the House of Representatives to-day. The bill, which is a private measure, designed to grant the institute exemption from the payment of rates on its land and buildings in Parnell, and to empower the Auckland City Council to grant a remission of rates, was introduced by Mr. F. W. Schramm (Labour —Auckland East).