Drink More Milk

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20065, 23 March 1935, Page 9

Drink More Milk

One can well appreciate the surprise of visitors to New Zealand on finding (as Mr Bernard Shaw, for one. found) that milk enjoys such sparse favour. Yet how much more surprising is the country’s abstinence under conditions which offer a constant threat of bankruptcy to the dairy-farmer? Increased consumption of milk within the Dominion might not restore dairy farming to the boom level it once occupied; but it would at the very least be a useful factor in expanding (however slightly) the industry’s market and in relieving the glut conditions which are responsible for such consistently low returns. The institution of a free milk supply in the schools might reasonably be the first step in a policy of enlightenment and vision. It would kill two birds—at least two, and perhaps even more—with the one stone: the foundation of the future health of the nation, and the immediate alleviation and future improvement of conditions in an industry which is at present badly depressed. It is an opportunity which no Government with zeal for humanitarian legislation will long neglect.— Napier “Telegraph.”