CORRESPONDENCE.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14635, 13 February 1918, Page 13

CORRESPONDENCE.

ESPERANTO.

(To tho Editor of "The Colonist.")

Sir, —Your extract re Esperanto in your issue of this morning makes one think that it is worth while making inquiries about it, for the sako o* the rising generation, and also as an important factor in the after-war peace transactions, and in all future international relations. We in New Zealand pride ourselves on being in the forefront of many valuable innovations, especially in educational matters. VVhy not in this important one ? Already many schools in England have introduced it into their course of lessons, to the great advantage of the pupils,'not only in the study of Esperanto itself, but in the study of geography and kindred subjects. It was reported in the Wellington papers a few weeks ago that Sir Robert Stout, who is one of our leaders in educational matters, presided at a meeting where a lecture on Esperanto was gii/en, and there expressed himself as rery favourably impressed by what he had learned about it. As your valuable journal is always open for discussion on subjects of general interest I am venturing to send these few lines, hoping that you will find room for -them, and also hoping that an abier pen than mine will give us more information on this subject.

I am, etc.,

INTERESTED.

February 12th