TE WHARE PUNI

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 124, 27 May 1937, Page 18

TE WHARE PUNI

INTERESTING TALK.

The Te Whare Puni Circle of the University Women's Club had the, pleasura recently of entertaining, the representative of the Birth Control International Information Centre... who recently arrived from London,; and gave a short talk followed by .discussion amongst the members. v v'-^r. The speaker traced the idea of birth control back to its original basis in the feeling amongst women that -they have a right to space their families in accordance with their economic condition and health. Intelligent women:the world over, she said, were, Reeling that their duty to their Maker tand; their coitotry was better fulfilled by produce ing a small family of healthy, children than by the older method of a/yearly.! baby, a large number of delicate child-, ren (many of whom died in infancy), and a sickly harassed mother.-. Dealing with the effect of birth' control oa the population problem, figures we're quoted to show that intelligently applied control did not cause.a drop in population. In; Holland,; -where; clinics had been in operation since 1879, the ■ population was increasing faster than in any,country with; a;comparable standard of living. The average: family* in '■: that country was , smaller, but the. number of family. ;units was^ much- larger, which made, for-healthy! well-grown people, as: Avell as for increaseu spending, this' again leading to an "increase' in general prosperity.

The interest, in the . subject proved by the- number ot questions asked of the speaker and the discussion1 caused," ' " ••■;: J Supper and a hearty vote of thanks concluded .the proceedings.'; .