ESPERANTO

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 May 1939, Page 3

ESPERANTO

MASTERTON CLUB MEETING. ADDRESS ON SONGS AND BOOKS. The weekly meeting of the Masterton Esperanto Club was held last evening in the clubroom, Municipal buildings, Mr A. Dewar, D.8.E.A., presiding over a good attendance of members. Overseas correspondence in Esperanto dealt with comprised letters from Slovakia and Tasmania, postcards from Hungary, and the monthly radio programme, a 42 page booklet published wholly in Esperanto, of the Italian radio-station, 2RO. A letter from, and the “Official Bulletin” of the New Zealand Esperanto Association were also presented by Mr W. H. King, club delegate to the national organisation. A short address in Esperanto was delivered by the Secretary on the subject of Kantoj kaj Libroj en Esperanto” (Songs and Books in Esperanto), his remarks relating to the various well-known melodies, which have been given Esperanto lines, and to the large numbers of books on a wide range of subjects now obtainable in the international language. After the tuition period, which comprised further conversational practice combined with the study of finer points ot grammar, an original dialogue in Esperanto, entitled “La Vizitanto” (The Visitor") was ably presented by Mr and Mrs E. J. Esler. The closing melody “Venas nun la Hor’ ” (Now comes the Hour”) was sung, following which the president, on behalf of the club, accorded a farewell to Mr H. H. Russell, on the occasion of his early departure from Masterton for Wellington.