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' The Minister ■(>£ Education has been requested to introduce Esperanto_ into our schools,, and he has promised to give a fortnights consideration to the matter. In our opinion, he need not have wasted a single minute over it., There is no conceivable excusefor regarding Esperanto as an educational study. It . has no more literary value than Shorthand and ho iuore cultural value than typewriting". How anybody could seriously come' to contemplate the introduction of' this preposterous jargon into an already oyercrowded syllabus passes our comprehension, and we can only assume that nothing but Mr. Atmore's sense, of courtesy prevented him from-giving -'the proposal-the sbotfc shrift that ~iy aeservef. •'
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 164, 13 July 1929, Page 8
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