ESPERANTO

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 September 1939, Page 5

ESPERANTO

I T ! MASTERTON CLUB MEETING. I - I There was a good attendance of I members .at ,t.he weekly meeting of the I Masterton Esperanto Club held last ! evening in the clubroom, Municipal I Buildings. Mr A. Dewar, D.8.E.A., preI sided. I Sympathy and condolences were exI tended to the vice-president, Mrs J. | McNab, on account of the death of her I husband, which occurred in Masterton | last Saturday. I The secretary, Mr W. H. King, anI nounced the receipt of postcards in Es- | pe.ra.nto from Latvia, Hungary and I Poland, the card from Poland being I particularly interesting jn that it was | posted in Warsaw and stamped philaI telicly. It was also reported that an [ East Coast Esperanto Group had been I formed under the guidance of Mr A. I L. Ferguson, headmaster of the j Whakawhitira Native School, near GisI borne. | Further conversational practice and specialised study under the direction of the secretary occupied an hour. A practical demonstration of writing from dictation was given by Messrs A. G. Wiltshire and E. J. Esler which clearly disclosed that Esperanto, being entirely phonetic, is free from the various spelling difficulties experienced in national languages. The meeting closed with the singing of the theme song in Esperanto “Nun Venas la Hor” (Now is the Hour).

The location of historical trees in Southland was discussed by the executive of the Southland Progress League recently, following a request from the Plant Research Bureau of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research for a list of those trees which should be preserved in view of the centennial celebrations. The list, stated the letter, should include historic native trees, as well as those planted by pioneers, or those having some special point of interest. Members of the league stated that trees at Te Anau, Queenstown, and Nokomai i were worthy of mention, as were also the stumps remaining of trees planted by Captain Cook at Dusky Sound, and the original pungas which comprised an historic hut at the Kew Hospital. The league decided to collect and supply what information became available.