ESPERANTO

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 23, 27 July 1939, Page 16

ESPERANTO

The weekly meeting of the Karori Esperanto Society was held in the Parish Hall last night. Mr. Nelson Hill presiding. A letter of greeting was received from the newly-formed club at Ohakune. After the period of instruction, Mr. Bernfeld continued his talks on "Central Europe." Scientific history proved that in one epoch, approximately 6000 8.C., the sea extended from Vienna in the west to the Ural Mountains in the east. Three great steppes now show where the waters had subsided in three distinct phases.

At the weekly meeting of "La Esperantista Kultura Rondo de Miramar," which took place last night in Miramar, Mr. James E. Wells, the president, alluded to the continued progress that Esperanto was making. overseas. Mr. Bertram Potts was elected chairman for the evening. For a quarter of an hour members wrote in Esperanto essays on "The New Zealand Centennial Exhibition." The weekly vocabulary test ensured that members were acquiring new words each week, and satisfactory progress was reported. Word-building in Esperanto followed, after which a continuous narrative was told by the members in turn. Other games which called for the use of the language were introduced before supper was served. Mrs. William Smith was hostess. '

Over 14,000,000 people have been up the Eiffel Tower during its fifty years of existence.