MIRAMAR ESPERANTO SOCIETY

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 55, 7 March 1939, Page 5

MIRAMAR ESPERANTO SOCIETY

. The weekly meeting of the Miramar Esperanto Society was held last night in the clubroom, St. Aidan's Hall, Miramar Avenue. Mr. Bertram Potts, J.P., the president, announced that on March 25 Esperantists from the clubs at Wellington, Palmerston North, Masterton, Lower Hutt, and Miramar would meet at Wellington for the purpose of making a presentation to Mr. W. H. King, D.8.E.A., who for ten years had acted as the honorary secretary of the New Zealand Esperanto Association, and had been obliged to resign the office through pressure of departmental business. The presentation would be made by Mr. W. L. Edmanson, J.P., F.8.E.A., during the course of a social evening and dance. The secretary of the Miramar Society, Mr. William Smith, read correspondence he had received from Denmark in Esperanto. Mr. James E. Wells was appointed director of tuition, his duties being to organise new classes when necessary, rearrange erroups according to advancement, and allocate the reserve teachers when occasion demanded. Classes were continued under the guidance of experienced teachers. The influx of new students necessitated the appointment of a new teacher and Mrs. Annie McCarthy was assigned the important task. The conversation group spent the tuition period as "patients" at the surgery of the "doctor," where they enumerated their many imaginary aches and pains, so acquiring vocabulary and self-expression. In the second part of the evening a diverting comedy entitled "Bonega Memoro" ("An Excellent Memory") was presented by Miss Moira McMahon, Mrs. Annie Wells, and Mr. James Mackay. The play was specially written for the society by Mr. James E. Wells, to whom a hearty vote of thanks was accorded at the fall of the curtain.