Milk back in Napier school

A milk-in-schools trial has started at Richmond School in Napier.

Principal Harry Findlay said he understood no parents had refused the offer of free milk for their children each day this term while the school took part in the sponsored trial.

Mr Findlay, a veteran of the Government-backed school milk scheme that ended with the removal of the subsidy in 1967, was worried whether nine weeks would be enough to prove the value of the programme.

Although there have been some calls for community groups and businesses to sponsor a wider re-introduction of milk in schools, he said the survival of the scheme would be difficult without fuller Government support.