Population
Sir, —B. Kingston’s letter on population control raises an urgent matter but, in advocating legal enforcement jumps away ahead of where we have got to in this coun try. After a recent talk by Dr Alice Bush to a Maori group in Auckland, Mr R Kake, secretary of the Otara Maori Committee, is reported as saying that the subject of birth control was "entirely new to them. Many Maoris knew nothing of the concept.” What is needed first in New Zealand is freedom for those who do not object to receiving adequate information and advice. The birth-control movement has been and is of major historical importance Those whose parents do not disapprove should, in fourth form social studies, be brought thoroughly up to date in it, and there should be an optional question about it in the School Certificate examination. Evasion of the controversial is, on this issue, unjustifiable.—Yours, etc., MARK D. SADLER. April 17, 1968.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31657, 18 April 1968, Page 8
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