ESPERANTO

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 128, 4 June 1929, Page 8

ESPERANTO

(To the Editor.)

. Sir,—After Sir -Joseph Ward returned from the international Postal Conference in 1906 he strongly recommended that Esperanto, the universal language, should be taught, m -New Zealand schools. Just imagine the immense benefits that would have accrued if the time which has been given to French by all the Dominion's pupils since that date had been given to i-speranto. One might ask: "Why spend years making a key which can be used with great difficulty to - open one lock, when m- one-tenth of;the time you can lock" 11 a h vviU op-n■almost eTer y .Professor Gilbert Murray, the noted hterateur of Oxford University, Eays.thlt Esperanto is a brilliant piece of workmanship. Teacher who have conducted classes nrthis language affirm that an ordinary boy or girl, can learn to' read, even nf How many students, even of those. who , have passed, bX French, can converse in, French with any A child' inNNtW t South Wale's, seven. y f easf of age, daughter of the president of the New douth Vales Esperanto S ciation, speaks the language -fluently and has correspondents in afl t& leadmgcou^ tries. It is recognised that the persona! llitesg united in '<ft ye? all unkind will be led^&^^^^Men^^ ■': >-r--'---- '-■■: .1 M. J.ryaat