BIRTH CONTROL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 206, 1 September 1938, Page 18

BIRTH CONTROL.

W.D.F.U. REMITS. VICE-PRESIDENT'S STATEMENT. Mrs. W; J. Poison, vice-president of the Women!s Division of the Farmers' Union, issued a statement in Wellington yesterday asking that the criticism of the Women's Division of the Farmers' Union with regard to the recent adoption of,remits dealing with birth control should be temporarily withheld. "When birth control and sterilisation remit* were raised at the 1938 conference of the Women's Division of the Farmers' Union one or two of us were deeply concerned at what we considered a violation of the constitution, inasmuch ea a sectarian issue wae involved," states Mrs. Poison. "Wβ protested against such remits being allowed to proceed. However, when the motion was carried, a petition was immediately circulated in an endeavour to retrieve the position, which appeared to have arisen through a misunderstanding on the part of delegates as to the far-reaching consequence of such remits. "Replies to that protest are now com•ing in, but it will be some little time before their full strength is known. In view of thfe fact I feel impelled to write eo that the situation may be understood and criticism withheld until these protests have been considered," Mrs. Poison concludes.