ESPERANTO CLUB

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 32, 6 August 1936, Page 5

ESPERANTO CLUB

It was. announced at the weekly meeting of the. Wellington' Esperanto Club on Monday night that advice had been received from abroad that the Swedish Department of Foreign Commerce used Esperanto extensively in communicating with foreign countries. In Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, the otticial tourist office employed an official with a knowledge oi Esperanto for assisting foreign tourists visiting or passing through the city. In Helsinki (Finland,) seventy tramwayJnen had founded an Esperanto section because of the increasing use of Esperanto among the travelling public. The international radio service had announced that during 1935 there had been 1409 Esperanto broadcasts. The Esperantist Radio Club of France published a beautiful Esperanto magazine of interest to radio enthusiasts. In April last the councils of 18 towns and communities in France had passed recommendations for the introduction .of Esperanto into the schools.

Classes were organised under the direction of experienced teachers, the senior members forming conversation, reading, and translation groups.' Miss Ngaire Prentice and Mr.. Fred Prentice presented an entertaining Esperanto sketch entitled "Silentu! Silentu!" Miss Anne Crompton-Smith gave an illustrated talk in Esperanto on "Internacia' Korespondado," photographs and postcards being reproduced on the screen by the club's eoidiascope.- Mr. Henri W. Thorns and Mr. Leek gave a diverting sketch, "Bonan Tagon, S-ro Delegito!" Mr. L. D. Smith gave an epidiascope talk on "La Progreso de Esperanto en U.S.S.R." An original sketch entitled "Oni Trompas Filateliston," was1 presented.' by Messrs. Anton Vpgt, Joseph Thomas, and Bertram Potits,