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Bertram Potts, J.P. (Wellington) advocates the introduction of Esperanto to the schools. ‘‘This neutral idiom has already been taught in more than 32 countries with outstanding success, children learning to read, speak, and write the language in one school year,” he writes. “The New Zealand Government has a wonderful opportunity of leading the world in this direction, for the introduction of Esperanto into the schools of this Dominion has been a plank of the Labour Party’s platform for more than 25 years,”
Henry Betts (Reefton) advocates the adoption of English as the universal language. “As Britain trades extensively with all parts of the globe," he writes, “the English tongue is more likely to be spoken universally, in addition to national languages, than any other. It certainly is so in the Southern Hemisphere.”
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23918, 9 April 1943, Page 6
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