CORRESPONDENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 January 1921, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

POSTAL BUSINESS.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —In your issue of the 4th inst. there is a paragraph in which the writer suggests that the large number of postcards posted in 1918 was due to frugality on the part of Now Zealanders. I think it can be explained as a species of generosity, not frugal, but largeminded and cosmopolitan. I know that there are hundreds of Esperantists in New Zealand who, like myself, made use of the international language as a means of cqrrespondence with Esperantists of other countries. Between the years 1907 and 1920 I carried on a very wide Esperanto correspondence by means of illustrated postcards, which we exchanged. I have a collection of about 700 of these, sent to me from all parts of the civilised world, and, I of course, sent away as many in return. This intercommunication was extrefnely interesting, especially those from Russia, the Caucasus, Bulgaria, Mexico and North and &uth America. The last card I received' from Austria, dated June, 1914, said in Esperanto: "How I wish I lived where you are, in New Zealand, away from all this talk of war/’-r-I am, etc., 6 D.B.E.A, Stratford, 4th January.