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King Country Chronicle, Volume XII, Issue 1219, 3 June 1919, Page 2

A cutti»g is taken from a Sydney newspaper, which goes to show how reports gain magnitude as they travel until, in the end, the latest story bears but the remotest resemblance to its parent. The paper referred to, evidently as an encouragement to Sydneyites to "keep up their pecker" during the influenza epidemic visitation on that city, says: "But as things are bad here they have not yet reached the stage or lYight attained in New Zealand. The shops were closed and abandoned, and were not rc-opened until the virulence of the plague had exhausted itself. The principal vehicles seen in the streets were horse-pro-pelled hearses driven by men who called out aa they passed: 'Bring out your dead I Bring out your dead!"'