RIFLE SHOOTING.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16412, 4 January 1919, Page 8

RIFLE SHOOTING.

••WEEKLYPRESS" CHALLENGE SHIELD. ASIIDURTON HIGH SCHOOL WIN SOUTH ISLAND SHIELD. The handsome silver Challenge Shields presented by the "Weekly Press" for competition among «Senior Cadets are tlie most valuable shooting prizes offered in the Dominion.| One large shield is presented for each island, and the winning teain not only receives the shield for the year, but each member receives a handsome silver medal, specially designed and engraved. The Government also gives £10 in cash prizes to the winners, who rank as the Champion Cadet Team of the island. This year the South Island 'Shield has been won by the No. 14 Company (Ashburton High School) Cadets, who also receive the medals and cash prizes. The winning team, with their scores, are . 25yds.

Average 61,8 per man out of a possible 68. , . Tlio influenza epidemic, coming at the time entries should l>e mode, was the cause of no entries being received for the North Island Shield at the proper date, but teams_from the Wellington district will fire between February Ist and April Ist.

THE VALUE OF RIFLE SHOOTING. MAJOR WALLINGFORD'S ADVICE. (.PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) AUCKLAND, January 3. The astonishing information that of the 30,000 Cadets always in training in New Zealand, 10,000 never do any shooting! and 10,000 only fire a few shots, was given out by Major Wallingford at the presentation of prizes at the concluding day's shooting of the Auckland Rifle Association's meeting at Penrose yesterday. The remaining 10,000 of the Cadets, he said, had learned to shoot very well. He was emphasising the nocessity of inducing the young men of the Dominion to take up rifle shooting,. and suggested that some incentive in the way of trophies should be offered. "The old Contemptibles," he continued, "wore trained to shoot at the rate of 15 shots j-er minute, and they always claimed that thev were capable of accounting for five Germans at any time or place." Major Wallingford urged rifle clubs to persevere with the instruction of the vouth of the country in rifle shooting— the only way of ensuring our safety. Rifle shooting was, in his opinion, one of the greatest assets the country could possess.

lJe- 25yde. liberate. Rapid. Tl. Cadet A. G. Gilliea .. 27 39 68 Cadet B. Ingram ..27 38 65 Cadet A. W. Stills .. 25 38 63 L.-Corpl. L. T. Jeffa .. 25 85 60 Cadet A. R. Dunlop ..27 87 64 Cadet E. Beech ..26 36 62 Cadet K. D. Arthur .. 25 87 62 Cadet J. H. McCallum ..25 SG 61 Cadet G-. A. Arthur .. 26 84 63 Caaet J.. W. Ramsay .. 23 32 55 Totallii