The Pahiatua Herald PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1935. MILK FOR CHILDREN.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13086, 21 October 1935, Page 4

The Pahiatua Herald PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1935. MILK FOR CHILDREN.

Instead of “Eat More Fruit” the cry to-day is ‘ ‘Drink More Milk” and so insistent has been the demand that the Government is slowly heeding the requests made of it to institute a. Dominion-wide scheme whereby milk will be distributed in large quantities throughout the schools. The agitation is naturally more acute in city areas where milk is not such a plentiful commodity. The high value of milk in the daily diet is generally recognised and its health-building properties are unsurpassed. The Auck land City Council has put a temporary scheme into operation and all eyes will be on. the outcome. While any such scheme, in its purpose, is strongly to be commended, extreme care must be exercised in bringing the machinery into operation. Milk is a food easily contaminated and if it is to he handled in bulk extra care must be taken to ensure that the milk consumed by the children is pure and fresh. Nor is this always easy, as every farmer knows. A farmer may take every possible precaution and still have his milk turned down at the factory. How much more essential then is cleanliness going to be when the raw material is going straight to the children for consumption. When the time arrives (as it surely will) that the consumption of milk has been doubled, or even trebled, farmers will realise, no doubt, the enormous responsibility which rests on thoii- shoulders—the health of the rising generation will lie largely in their hands.