SEX HYGIENE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 164, 14 July 1939, Page 7

SEX HYGIENE.

CONFERENCE DISCUSSION. NEW ATTITUDE ADOPTED. (By Telegraph.—Pre-?s Ase^oeia-tion.) \N ELLINGTON, this day. A new attitude to sex hygiene has been adopted by the women's division of the New Zealand Farmers' Union in decisions made at the conference now sitting in Wellington. A motion to rescind tlie resolutions of the previous conference was carried yesterday. Several remits dealing with sex subjects were considered in committee, but voting on tiiem was deferred until one, taking the form of a motion that two decision.-; of the previous conference be rescinded, had been considered. | The decisions which it was desired to j rescind were tlie ones favouring sterlisation in certain cases and the establishment of birth control clinics. A poll was taken on the rescinding motion and it was announced last night that it had been carried by a distinct majority. The other remits are not now expected to go to the vote. The Dominion executive decided at A meeting during the conference that matters of sex hygiene should in future be open for discussion only and that no vote should be taken on them. Cost of Washing Machines. j Criticism of the cost of domestic | electric appliances, in particular washing machines, was made by delegates, I who pointed out that electric appliances were necessary to obviate drudgery in I the alv-ence of domestic help. Adverse comment was passed 011 the effect of the import restrictions 011 the avail- . abilitv ot washing machines.

The Otaiio branch u ished the conference to ask the «Jovcriinient to remit the duty on domestic appliances for use in the home, because help difficult to obtain in tin* country

At tor some the remit was rai l it'tl as covering a :rrouj> of remits.