DOMINION RIFLE MEETING.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20108, 11 December 1930, Page 13

DOMINION RIFLE MEETING.

arrangements made. MODIFIED PROGRAMME. [THB FBEBB Special ServlM.] WELLINGTON, December 10. Arrangements for the 1931 rifle meeting of the National Rifle Association were finalised at a special meeting of the Association's executive committee this morning. / A four-day meeting is to be held at Trentham in March, and although the programme has oi necessity been sliffhtlv modified as a result of the action in withdrawing its customary grant ■ of. £lWo,no in i inß been made in the cost or entry. With but a small bank balance ft could be seen that the executive was faced with a problem if a meetmg was +« be held; but it felt that it was hotter to hold a slightly modified with savings effected wherpisible, than decide upon a

range will be open for practice as usual on the day prior to the start of the meeting. A programme based on 200 entries has been drawn up, an shooting will take place on the Collin. range with 25 targets, instead of over two ranges with 50 targets has been the case in the past. The free ra way warrants previously available have this vear been cancelled; but the Railwa? Department is prepared to meet riflemen travelling to the meeting to the extent of allowing them excursion rates The Defence Department is n - sisting, and has agreed to supply the Association with range officers and a statistical staff. In the service shooting, the two repeat practices, tile competition, and snap-shooting have been deleted and in the amended programme the tile competition and moving-target practice will constitute one match. Allocation of Prizes. TWre will therefore be three service A-hes and the prizes for each ot them will be as follows: One prized £3 one prize of £2, ten prizes of £l, tSi prizes of 10s. The prizes for the Service Championship will be one of £5 one of £4, and one of £4, one ot one of £2,. eight of £1 ' I sl gf« n , h of inJ The prizes allocated for the Service Teams' Match are one of £4, one of £3, one of £2, and one of £l. The B series ot matches, which do not count for the Championship Belt, will consist of three matched instead of four matches as in tho past. Tho C series will be the same as last year,

with, the exception of the Auckland. Match, which has been deleted. With the exception of the service matches there will bo 58 prizes totalling £6O for each match. The prizes will be allocated as follows:—A Grade: One of £5, one of £4, one of £3, two of £2, 23 of £l. B Grade: One prize of £2, four prizes of £l, ten prizes of 10s. Tyros: Five prizes at £l, ten prizes at 10s. Imperial Aggregate. •Fifty prizes amounting to £67 will be awarded to the successful competitors in the Imperial Aggregate, which is for the highest aggregate pcorers in the B Grade matches. Other prizes will be awarded as follows:—B Grade and tyro aggregates: One prize of £3, one of £2, three of £l, four of 10s. Bisley and Trentham aggregates: One prize of £4, one of £3, three of £2 twelve of £l, ten of 10s. Australian aggregate: One of £7, one of £5, one of £4, two of £3, five of £2, six of £l, and ten of 10s. ChampionB hip Teams' Match (four men): One of £4 and four silver cups, one of £4, one of £3, and two of £2. . A saving will also be made by cutk'n S out the official programme, and the advance programme issued prior t® the meeting will constitute the official programme. Ammunition will be free. The Challenge 0.1. Cup Will go to the highest score in the snapsnooting, and Will be ■ held for one year. The Dawson Challenge Shield W I ,®°. to the winner of the No. 1 match in tho A series.

Match for King's Prize. The final match for the King's Prize has been narrowed down slightly by reducing the King's fifty down to forty, and giving forty prizes totalling £llO instead of fifty prizes totalling £2OO. The King's Prizeman will receive £3O in cash, tlie championship belt, a gold medal, and the badge of the National Rifle Association. The runner-up will reeeive £ls, a silver star, and a National Rifle Association badge, and the third man £lO, a silver star, and a National Rifle Association badge. The fourth placed man will receive £7 in cash, and following that there will be six prizes of £3 and thirty of £l.