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Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15044, 11 April 1919, Page 3

"Is singing practice a defence against influenza•?". The;; Hon; -,Gr.: M. Thomson made a suggestion to that effect' at the . Choral .Society^ meeting at Dunedin. Commenting on the fact that but of the large number] of members of .Ihe Society f only«6ne. succumbed in the recent epidemic, he said::he was not sure it was. not an established fact that persons who trained their vocal organs by breathing and other like exerciceß were immune to bronchial: v and- similar ; complaints, and in that way were less liable to influenza. Anyway, there was record that only one choral member died A Dunedin merchant interviewed in regard to the question-of a further reduction of freights between Britain and New Zealand, said that at the beginning iof the war freights from London were in the vicinity/of £10 per ton., Soon after the armistice.••;the rate dropped to £7. The latest advices in Dunedin by mail intimate that: the rates ar reduced to £3 10s per- ton. Previous to the war freights.were at £2, but merchants in the Dominion are inclined to think that, though. > a further reduction wfll be made, it will not be a large reduction, because it ;is realised that shipowners must work their steamers at an inci'eased cost, due to higher wages, the greater cost of coal. and> other enhanced charges.. ■-•(.. ■ ■ -. •• ■" . At a., depth of 45ft under the ground the temperature of the earth is tiniform' throughout the year.