"LEARN TO SHOOT."

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 86, 4 January 1908, Page 5

"LEARN TO SHOOT."

CADETS' TIIOPHY. LORD ROBERTS'S IMPERIAL SCHEME. BT TELEQBArE—rKEBE ASSOCIATION —COTIIiIGIIT London, January 2. . The education and tlio dofonco authorities in each colony will be ontitled to conjointly entor one team of oight schoolboys to oompoto annually for tho trophy presented by Earl Roborts for competition by British and Imperial schoolboys. Tho firing for the trophy will talro place locally between January and August. /If tho colonies send two boys to Bisley to competo for tho Lady Gwondolen Guineas, an Imperial trophy for schoolboy marksmen, tho secretary of the Roberts's trophy fund will provide hospitality. On October It, at the Mansion House, the Lord Mayor distributed the prizes won at the i Boys' Bisley by members of the .'City. School Boys' Shooting Club—nn organisation which | is working under Lord Roberts's scheme for national training, and is affiliated to tho National Rifle -Association and to the Ist Cadet Battalion of the King's Rornt Hides. ' ! Dr. It. J. E. Hanson, R.N.V.R., honorary I secretary of the Club, opened the proceedings with a 'statement in which he briefly surveyed ' the work and progress of the Club. He said i that tho Mansion Bouse Committee had afforded opportunity .to every primary schoolboy in the City .to loarn aiid to practise rilio shooting under skilled supervision and insti notion 'throughout the year. This year tliev sent nearly 200 members to tho Boys' Bisley, where they were inspected by Lord Roberts, who described their "turn out" as highly commendable. They secured the Lady Gwendolen Guiness Cup, with G7 points out of 70, and also gained (equal) third place. This was the only competition open to them at the lioys' Bisley. They shot off a "simultaneous" match with schools in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Natal on August 2. _ Officers commanding public school cadets in New Z&land, Natal, and Australia wrote very 1 cordially, and acknowledged tho important ini fhienee which such matches might have upon tho friendliness and patriotism of British schoolboys all over the world. Lord Roberts 1 offered a "Roberts' Trophy for competition t annually by schoolboys of tho Umpire,'' tiius setting "the seal of his approval upon the match. In. conclusion, ho opsorved that there were about two million schoolboys between the . ages of 11 and 15 years in this country, but ' it was to a very small extent that they ? were organised into Volunteer cadet corps Or boys' brigades. , They needed Government or--3 ganisation and subsidy to the same deirroo as : was given in Now Zealand j then. Dr. Hanson ' added, 'wo should securo efficiency and : -economy. , (Hoar, hear.) Lord Roberts wroto as follows to Dr. Han--1 son"I will with pleasure givo a 'Roberts' 3 Trophy for schoolboys of tho Empire' to lie competed for annually by representative teams of British an<l Colonial schoolboys who are 1 not over 16 years of ago on July 1 immediately s preceding the match." " — =*