ESPERANTO NOTES.

Grey River Argus, 17 June 1922, Page 7

ESPERANTO NOTES.

(By Laboristo.) In all parts of the world Esperanto is making rapid progress. To keep count and reckoning of the many socitics and institutions adopting ami using the language is almost impossible. In New Zealand there is commendable- activity and the time Ims almost arrived when one need not look abroad for Esperanto copy. Regularly Mr Charles Parker fills a page of Auckland Labour News’’ with most interesting news of Esperanto. Latterly % an Esperanto column, conducted by Miss Mary McCarthy, has been added to the i “Maoriland Worker." In the Mana-‘ watu district the movement is ably lend by Mr Rod Ross. Groups meet regularly in Wangarei, Gisborne and Wellington. In Dunedin Rossbotham’s Commercial College has introduced Es- • 1-eraiito with Miss Mary McCarthy as 1 teacher. Mr Rod Ross recently de- ; livered an interesting lecture in Pal- ; mors ton North at a meeting of the ; -Philosophical Society. He took as bis i subject the universal language Esper- ! unto. Sir Ross dealt briefly with th.' 1 i early attempts to create a universal language. Outlining the attempt of Andreas Muller, in 1889, the main fea- i turos of the life of Dr Namenhof, in- • ventor of Esperanto, the lecturer explained the construction of Esperanto. ' Mr Ross said that, in his opinion, if 1 we in New Zealand are to hold our : own with the other nations of th-e t world, it is time this auxiliary language 1 g was taught in the schools of the Doni- < inion. Our teachers should be preparing themselves now for the future *. demand for instruction in this rapidly * growing language—" Manawatua watu Daily ♦ Standard." In Wellington, before the Cerclc Litteraire Francaise, Mr & Vv. L. Adamson made a comparison be- &■' tween the French, English and Esper- K auto languages. On a bhiek-board he showed the word construction and elemeats of the language. He concluded by delivering in Esperanto. Shakes- ♦ peare s Seven Ages of Man.—Translat- 4 ed from "Suda Krnco" official organ ® of Australasian Esperanto Association. Miss Mary McCarthy in her "Esper- & auto Notes" in " Maoriland Worker" P. : 1 a short time ago juotes from "Plebs" gg as to the practical application of Esperanto by coal-miner .Mark Starr of the London Labour College:—"By ♦ ISmeans of the international language «> Starr was able to address the German ® Workers’ Esperanto Association in Hamburg and Berlin. He also addres- K sed two important communist gather-,£■ ings in Altona and Berlin. These groups send fraternal greetings every- £. where."—Auckland Labour News. | *