NATIVE DAIRYING

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22961, 12 February 1938, Page 15

NATIVE DAIRYING

CONDITIONS IN V INDIA OPINIONS OF ARMY OFFICER [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON. Friday An officer of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Major T. Young, who has been engaged in organising the milk supply for Europeans in India, arrived by the Wanganella from Sydney today. He is on a holiday visit to the North Island.

Major Young said native dairying conditions were revolting, but Europeans no longer hud to rely on that source. Shorthorn cattle had been imported and crossed with the native blasts to secure disease resistance, and European dairy farms were well organised and under Btrict control.

The British "Tommy" in India, he added, could 110 longer be a beer-drink-ing soldier. Beer had beeii largely replaced by tea, and now tea was giving place to milk. All the army canteens carried supplies of iced milk, which was sold to soldiers in penny bottles. Milk was issued free to native troops, as it had been found essential to the health of young soldiers. A large number of the natives were recruited at 15 years of ago and did not grow to a stature equal to the nonmilitary population. Although better fed, .their drill called for extra nourishment, and so milk was supplied.