LEARN THE MOTHER TONGUE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 232, 1 October 1925, Page 7

LEARN THE MOTHER TONGUE.

IX PREFERENCE TO ESPERANTO,

"Lft us get our own mother tongue taught properly first." declared the Rev. W. C. Wood during the course of a discussion at the Primary Schools Committees' Association last evening on the question of the introduction of Esperanto as a compulsory subject in schooL

The Grey Lynn School Committee forwarded a remit in favour of it. In supporting the remit, Mr. J. Scott said the League of Nations had endorsed a movement for the introduction of tha subject. It was only a matter of lime until Esperan.to would be taught, he said, and why should not New Zealand lead the way? Mr. Wood said that 20 years ago he was a keen advocate of Esperanto, but now he did not favour asking the Goternment to make it compulsory. The remit was rejected. |

In connection with the bus accident at Ellerslie yesterday the young man who was reported to be learning to drive is actually an experienced taxi-driver with a license granted eight years ago. It might be inferred that he was learning to drive in the bus that, came to grief, but he was only accompanying the dLriver of the vehicle in order to leva tbe run and the fares. i .