ESPERANTIST HONOURED

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 156, 28 March 1939, Page 7

ESPERANTIST HONOURED

Presentation To Mr. W. H. King

Members of Esperanto clubs in Palmerston North, Wanganui, Masterton, Hutt Valley, Miramar, and Wellington? met on Saturday evening in the clubroom of the Wellington Esperanto Club, on the occasion of a presentation to Mr. W. H. King, D.8.E.A., who for ten years has been secretary of the New Zealand Esperanto Association. During the evening, which took the form of a social and dance, the president of the association, Mr. B. Potts, asked the former president, Mr. W. L. Edmanson, F.8.E.A., to make the presentation. Mr. Edmanson said Mr. King had been honorary secretary of the association since its formation, and bad been obliged to resign at the ninth Neiv Zealand Esperanto Congress held in Wellington at the New Year, because of the increasing responsibilities of his work and his transfer to Masterton. Mr. Edmanson presented Mr. King with a fountain pen and pencil, and a green calf-skin portfolio with initials in gold. Mr. L. E. Dust, D.8.E.A., a former president of the association, also spoke. Mr. King, in reply, thanked Dominion Esperantists for their tokens of appreciation. which, he said, were quite unnecessary. His services had been a labour of love in the interests of international goodwill and of the movement in New Zealand.

Mrs. E. B. Stewart was pianist, Air. Nelson Hill, D.8.E.A., playing the supper extya. Mr. Frank Bailey was master of ceremonies.