ESPERANTO

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 June 1938, Page 9

ESPERANTO

MEETING OF MASTERTON CLUB.

The weekly meeting of the Masterton Esperanto Club was held last evening, Mr W. H. King, D.8.E.A., honorary secretary of the New Zealand Esperanto Association, presiding over a good attendance. Tuition was given by Mr King, who also announced that up to March 31, 1,100 members from 25 countries had enrolled for the 30th Universal Congress of Esperanto to be held in London during August, and in which two New Zealand Esperantists will take part. In the course of a short talk to club members, Mr King referred to the impetus given the Esperanto movement by radio. Not less than 25,080 broadcasts, including 225 courses of study, had been made up to the end of 1937. During last year 91 radio station in 22 countries had broadcast 1025 items in or about Esperanto and of the number 33 stations in 18 countries had broadcast items wholly in the language. The first international relay of an Esperanto programme had been broadcast on October 7 last, when the French Government station at Lyons and the Lithuanian station at Kaunas and Klaipeda relayed the Esperanto translation of the Czech opera “The Kiss.” broadcast from the Brno (Czechoslovakia) radio station. The occasion was the first on which an artistic Esperanto programme had been relayed internationally.