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Lyttelton Times, Volume CV, Issue 12532, 20 June 1901, Page 6

Four hundred millions of sardines are taken yearly off English coasts. Sardines are simply young pilchard. • The new military training ground on Salisbury Plain is to be something more than a summer mianceuvriiiiig area as in the. past few years, and there will soon be established on the Tidworth end! of this Wiltshire territory a permanent military garrison. It has been decided to provide additional accommodation! for home troops, to meet the needs of the time at that part of Salisbury Plain known as Clarendon Hill, near Tidworth, The plans of toe first portion of the new 6cheme show that the barrack blocks are to cover an area of something like 480 acres, with a frontage extfending fully two miles. The reported discovery of a process by which aluminium can be used instead of paper as material for books is, if the report be true, one which will have far-reaching consequences. It is said to be possible to roll the metal to a thickness of l-260in, which is the thickness of fairly thin paper } and it is stated that in this condition it is most suitable for the printer's purpose, as well as a trifle lighter than, paper. If the aluminium really does possess the advantages claimed for it, it will furnish a means of creating practically imperishable records of the most valuable literature of our modern civilisation. It -will also be passible to have the books in our circulating and referenoe libraries printed on it. They will' last better, and it will be possible to clean and disinfect them periodically, which is at present, unfortunately, n«* the caßCy