ESPERANTO CLUB

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 June 1938, Page 9

ESPERANTO CLUB

1 At the weekly meeting of the Masterton Esperanto Club, held last evening, Mr A.. Dewar, D.8.E.A., presided over a satisfactory attendance. The usual tuition was provided by Mr W. H. King, D.8.E.A., who, prior to the discussion of formal business, presented greetings from the Esperanto club's at Wellington, Miramar and Lower Hutt, and from the executive of the New Zealand Esperanto Association, a meeting of which he had attended in Wellington on June 25. It was reported that during the week journals published in the international language had arrived from Italy, Brazil, Switzerland, France (2) and England (2); and that the Esthonian author of a book originally written and recently published in Esperanto had presented an autographed copy to the N.Z.E.A. In the course of a brief address on the subject “Esperanto and Stenography,” Mr King outlined the co-operation and connection between the international language movement and stenography, of which several systems have been adapted with success for the purpose of writing Esperanto in shorthand. He referred to the activities of the Universal Shorthand Institute, with headquarters in France, which publishes bimonthly its official organ (“The Flying Pen”) in Esperanto and in shorthand.