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Marlborough Express, Volume LI, Issue 251, 23 October 1917, Page 8

A slight shock of earthquake was experienced in Blenheim shortly after 9 o'clock tin's morning. Commander Hubert de I3nrgh has been awarded the Distinguished Service Order for rescuing Germans (says a, Router message of September loth). Ho commanded a destroyer in an action in which an enemy destroyer was sunk. He succeeded in saving seven of her crow whiio under heavy fire- from shore batteries, and with three, enemy seaplanes hovoring overhead. No less :i quantity than 997 tons of fish was destroyed at the Christchurch destructor during the last financial year, out of a total of i16\.57() tons of rubbish of all kinds. Included in the food condemned by the health inspector were 1186 rabbits, ten sacks of crayfish, fifty-two casks of groper and 8401b of whitebait. When compared with the» previous. .Vbar, states the Lyttelton Times, the amount of refuse showed a decrease of 231 tons, notwithstanding that Opawa and St. Martin's were now in--1 eluded in_ the arei. To destroy this ! refuse, ijo79 fires were required, and .Hie residue consisted of 4121 loads of clinker nrvl 523 loads of tins. To destroy the fish nnd offal it was necessary to burn coal valued at £100 lls 9d- to effect good results. WANTED.—A taxi owner who is keen to savo money to try Clincher Cross Tyres, the all-British tyre—not _fclia_di£JiiiflsiL—lmL-tIM least ftxiiensivQ,