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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16635, 18 January 1922, Page 7

Among the passengers who arrived at Sydney recently were two Australian delegates to the Esperanto (Jon ferenoe, which was recently held at Prague, Messrs J. G. Fyke and R. Raw.son. They state that there were 2500 delegates at the conference, representing 37# different nationalities. The delegates found that in all the European countries which they visited they were able to transact much of their business through the medium of Esperanto. While in Dresden they visited a- school, in which 37 students, ranging in age from. 8 to 13 years, were able to speak-the language. At several of tho railway stations in Europe newspapers printed in tho .Esperanto were on sale. According to Mr W. 11. Morton, Wellington City Engineer, who just returned from Australia, slump conditions are more in evidence in Sydney than in Melbourne. In Sydney there were no outward signs of a plague scare, though every precaution, was bo jug taken with a. view to minimising the •effects' of the disease should it secure a hold in the city. In both Melbourne and Sydney the electric power plants wore being remodelled in order to make them comply with the latest British standards. This work was regarded as urgent. Considerable improvements were being made to the streets in tho way of wood-blocking, and by other moans. In Melbourne loan moneys were being spent on city works, and the city was being improved all the time.