ESPERANTO

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 May 1938, Page 9

ESPERANTO

MASTERTON CLUB. MOVEMENT MAKING PROGRESS. The weekly meeting of the Masterton Esperanto Club was held last evening when Mr A. Dewar presided over a good attendance of members. A new member present was Mr W. H. King, hon. secretary of the N.Z. Esperanto Association, and formerly of Wellington, who is now resident in Masterton. _ Mr King was extended a warm welcome. Mr King agreed to take over the work of class instructor. He has just completed twenty years’ association with the Esperanto Movement. Recently returned to New Zealand from Australia, Mr King conveyed the greetings of the Sydney Esperanto Society to local Esperantists and outlined the present position of the international language movement in the Dominion. He said that in recent years the language had spread rapidly, and last year was taught to 200 children in five New Zealand schools. At present the students of the Teachers’ Training College, Wellington, were undergoing a course of Esperanto instruction and classes were being continued in certain schools. In Wellington three strong clubs were operating. the central one possessing about 120 members, and a monthly all-Es-peranto journal was being published.