Devices Given As Souvenirs

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30827, 12 August 1965, Page 16

Devices Given As Souvenirs

GV Z. Association—Copyright ’ KANPUR (India), August 11. Six hundred gold-plated “souvenir” con- I traceptives were distributed at Kanpur as I India began production of the much heralded I “Lippes loop,” the “New York Times” reported. I

Each guest who arrived for, the dedication of India’s first intra-uterine contraceptive device factory received a golden loop as a souvenir. “Not for use,” said an attached label. The factory will turn out

14.000 white loops a day and fl India hopes to use them to|fl bring its surging birth rate® under control. Over the next year, the fac- fl tory is expected to turn out fl more than 5.000.000 loops. -fl Observers said the number fl was far more than India’s fl struggling family planning fl programme could hope to use. I Dr. Shushila Nayyar, the I I grey-haired woman who is I : India’s Minister of Health, said the entire country had a stake in the factory because the loop represented a ''not(able technological breakthrough” in the field of birth control.

Transport Alliance.—Officers elected at the annual meeting of the Christchurch branch of New Zealand Road Transport Alliance were: chairman, Mr I. G. Blake; executive, Messrs U. R. Griffin, W. J. C. Winskill. B. B. Woods, R. H. Blatchford, W. B. Keast, W. J. Baker, D. F. Musgrove, B. A. Turner, K. G. McDonald, and W. H. K. Boon.