MORE MILK AND LESS BEER.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20288, 22 December 1927, Page 12

MORE MILK AND LESS BEER.

HEALTH MINISTER’S CAMPAIGN, (From Our Own Correspondent.) SYDNEY, December 35. In trying to empty the hospitals, and to prevent sickness and disease, instead of attempting to cure the community’s ills, the New Smith Wales Minister of Health (Dr Arthur) reminds one of the little man who takes on a big man’s job. Dor ho is a man of small physique, but with all the high idealism of the zealous reformer. IT is gospel, in short, is more milk and less beer, more fruit and less sweelsluffs. He has now plunged into the gigantic task of trying to obtain a belter and cheaper milk supply for the metropolis of Sydney. lie hopes, before long, to be able to supply milk to all school.--, so that: youngsters can purchase a half-pint for a penny. It is not inconicable jhat pennies given to youngsters by (heir fond 'parents for milk will he spent, wit limit a twinge of conscience, mi lollies; but that is by the way. The little doctor aim hopes to malm cheaper fruit available for the ehool kiddles. If Dr Arthur can by these and other methods ],ring health to (he people and case the hospitals of their staggering loads o f patients and debts, he will have earned a monument more lasting than brass. I Its altitude is t hat if he could only lay hands on -mine of the £ 1 -J.Oi n't ()' it I sp.-nt: annually ill New Smith Wales on leer and spirim. and spend it on milk and fruit for the men and women of to-morrow, the children would be infinitely better off. and the he'd; drinkers would lie none the w.-g-e. i

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