HUTT VALLEY ESPERANTO CLUB

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 67, 20 March 1937, Page 6

HUTT VALLEY ESPERANTO CLUB

A meeting held in the Oddfellows1 Hall, Knights Road, Lower Hutt, on Wednesday decided to forma Hutt Valley Esperanto Club. The Mayor of Lower Hutt (Mr. J. W. Andrews) preS1 Mr.' Bertram Potts, president of the Wellington Esperanto Club, briefly outlined the reasons for forming a cluo in the Hutt district. " Mr. Anton Vogt, secretary of the Wellington Esperanto Club, outlined the fundamental principles of the language and stressed its growing need in a world where the language barrier was predominantly evident. The Esperanto language was not intended to supplant the England language as many people seemed to think, but was in* tended for use as an auxiliary language by which the various nationalities could be brought together, thus preventing the chaos and confusion which was apparent throughout the world today. National jealousy prevented the utilisation of the English, French, German, and Russian languages for the purpose of an international medium. At the conclusion of Mr. Vogt's address Mr. W. E. Curry, one of the oldest Esperantists in New Zealand and a resident of Lower Hutt, moved that a Hutt Valley society be formed. The motion was seconded by Mr. Henri W. Thorns, of Petone, and was carred. . The following officers were elected:—President, Mr. W. E. Curry; vice-presi-dent, Miss M. Stirling; secretary, Mr. Henri W. Thorns; treasurer, Miss K. Stirling. . _ , Mr. Thorns, speaking in Esperanto, thanked the members of the Wellington Club for their wholehearted cooperation and assistance in helping to get the new club formed, and mentioned how the founding of the new club had forged still another link m the mighty chain of Esperanto clubs which extended all over the world. Mr. Vogt translated.