MILK FOR SCHOOLS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22700, 12 April 1937, Page 11

MILK FOR SCHOOLS

DARGAVILLE SCHEME [by telegraph—OWN" correspondent] DARGAVILLE, Saturday A meeting of members of the Dargaville District High School Committee, three representatives of the Borough Council and one or two persons from outside schools is to he held next week on the question of the supply of milk in local schools. A Department of Health circular had just come to hand, slSid the chairman of the school committee. Mr. J. R. Alderson, this morning. This provided for obtaining milk pasteurised and in bottles for Is 3d a gallon for 200 days in the. year. This price, he considered, was not sufficient inducement for farmers to supply tho milk. If a satisfactory solution were not reached at the forthcoming meeting, he said, it was possible that a departmental inspector would bo invited to Dargaville to assist in putting the scheme into effect. WHANGAREI ARRANGEMENTS SERVICE OPERATES TO-DAY [from our own correspondent] WHANGAREI, Saturday The Government's milk in schools scheme will operate in all the primary schools within the boroijoh of Whangnrei as from Monday tie#, the schools concerned being Whangarei Central, Whan Valley, Ilorahora and St. Joseph's Convent. Mr. L. J. Brake, chairman of the local committee, reported to a meeting of the committee held yesterday that Dr. M. H. Watt, Director-General of Health, had approved the committee's recommendation to accept the tender of Messrs. Sothern and-Company, Limited, to supply and distribute the milk, which will be in half pint bottles and will be pasteurised. The total number of children from tho four Whangarei primary schools who will take the milk is 845. It is expected that this number will be considerably increased within a short time.