SCHOOLBOY MARKSMEN.
LORD ROBERTS'S TROPHY MATCH. THE; NEW ZEALAND REPRESENTATIVE TEAM. . ' The names of the schoolboy, marksmen who have been selected for the New Zealand ■ representative "nflo team" of eight' school cadots in theXord Roberts. Trophy' Match were announced „ yesterday. The selection was 1 based on ..? n , examination of average, rifle scores submitted from all over New Zealand, and it is rather a coincidence that each of the 1 four nrovmcial districts of- Auckland, Wellington,- CaiinS,d' -Otago have secured representation... ihe team is as : folio ws:r?, . vr • Average • Name. '" « ' ' Score? Corpl. Allen, .'King's College, Auckland ...... 61 CorpL-Coinbs, King's College, Auckland '61 Pte.- J. C. ' Williamson," - Wellington ' Col. :-. ; lege, Wellington. ..... 60 •"^°' son » Wellington College, ■ Wellington 6.1 Muiin, Rangiora 'High ; ■ Schooi!'. ' Canterbnry .......... " fii) Pte' Poster, Rangiora High School, Canterbury 57 Bugler Sams, Timarn High School, Canterbury '*,7 Private MTDongal, Dunedm High ' School! • O'ago m There., were no scores from the ..Nelson district, Tho team will shoot off at Polhill Gully on Friday, August 27, and will: assemble' in Wellington on Tuesday, Augiast'24, in order to undergo some preliminary practice at the range under Major Cresswell (Rangiora High' School) and Captain Matheson (Wellington College). Captain S. V. Trask, of the Headquarters Staff, will superintend at; tho shootoff. V' ' . ' Tho Lord Roberts Trophy Match is an annual Imperial- competition, open to representative teams of British (Imperial) schoolboys who, are not over 16 years of age: on July 1 of the year of.competition. In • addition to.-the principil trophy, tho .captain of ' the winning team will receive the . C. B.; Fry" silvor medal, and ea6n of the . other members, of the learn a bronze modal. The firing conditions prescribe that tho ranges will be 200 and 500 yards, with .'seven shots and a sighter at, each range; , '
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 585, 13 August 1909, Page 6
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291SCHOOLBOY MARKSMEN. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 585, 13 August 1909, Page 6
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