MORE MILK AND LESS BEER.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20708, 4 May 1929, Page 16

MORE MILK AND LESS BEER.

AUSTRALIAN HEALTH CAMPAIGN. (From Our Owk Correspondent.) • SYDNEY, April 25. Sydney had been honouring that indispensable animal, the cow, in a week’s campaign in which the enthusiastic, little Minister of Health, Dr Arthur, and his cohorts have been toasting one amother’s.health in milk, and impressing the public with the necessity for drinking more, of this precious- fluid. The consumption of .more milk and les# beer in the community *is one of Dr Arthur’s many ideals. He seizes every opportunity to preach it, but the publicans do not appear to be in imminent risk of filing their schedules.' Dr Arthur looks to the day when Sydney will erect a monument to that noble bucolic animal, the cgw, tfhd, when the grim hand'of Time arrests him', place his ashes beneath. the effigy with some such epitaph as ■ “ Here lies one who tried to give the children more milk.” Thus one; can picture little Dr Arthur with all the zeal of a reformer. Physically, Dr Arthur is to all outward appearance a rather, poor advertisement for his health ” stunts,” but if he can make the community well and shut up the overcrowded hospitals he will be ineffably happy. As a matter of fact, most Sydney households would take more milk, either as a beverage or in theiV culinary dishes, but the prpblcm ia one of cheaper production and distribution. This is where Dr Arthur has to get don n to tin tacks, ■ preach moivmilk dmi less beer is ope, thing; but tp redue cost of mi}k and make. its uro uhi’k* popular by more efficient methods \\f dairying and distribution, is quite another matter. • ■