RIFLE CLUBS' ASSOCIATION.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 641, 19 October 1909, Page 9

RIFLE CLUBS' ASSOCIATION.

; , :'■■„- ;'iO:BE-WOUND /UP. -. >~-. • Thb adjourned' mooting of : the Wellington Rifle, Clubs' , -Associationy::hold 'at -Pe'arce's, Rooms, Cuba Street, last evening for the purpose of further. considering-, the • question of joining forces with the--AVellingtou Garrison Bifle Association for.the purpose, of holding a joint prir.e meeting at Troatham annually, was well attended. Mr. W. E. Jackson, yice-presi-dent of the Ritle Clubs' Association, pre- '• The : chairman, who, with Messrs. Kitchen, ■ Marshall,- and Bird, ■ waited 'on tho Eicon-; tive Committco of the Garrison Bitlo'.Asso.cia>. tion "on Thursday last,.reported that an agreement had been..arrived, at whereby ' a , joint. prize meeting .would-be .held, arid represonta-! tion granted,to the rifle clubs to .tho extent of. three president.! or ci-presidents of clubs.', ~: ; Mr; H. . Marshall '■■, (Karon) f then 'moved.:-r, ?'That as .the. rifle- xlubs-' have been' granted representation on the Couaoil of the Wellington. Garrison- Rifle Association, "the LicensedvVic-, 'tuallers' Cup be handed over for competition at the Garrison Rifle.Association meeting, and that this association te nhd •; is hereby- dis> wived; - the, Garrison Rifle Association to'-b» ndrised to this effect."- .■;;■•. An amendment ' mered by Mr. Kitchen (Upper Hutt), to the effect that the RiSe Clubs' Associatien amilgamate irith the G«rrlson Rifle ■: Assoeittion, was lost,- and thn cHsiaal motion: carried. . :- ■•■■The question of the d>«pos«l of the fnnds of the association fU then ct»sid»red, «nd it inn rteelved: "Tli»t th» Bum of three enineu be pjeaenttd to the Garrison Rite Association tor tke purcU»M of a btoykjr f»r caia. petition at tke next prize suectiaj at Trentkim, that bonuses be grunted to tto s«crdt»ry (Mi, C. H. Aamodt], and treasurer (Mr. TT. ;udd), of tho Hide Clubi' Association in rtceyjjition of their valuable services in the work of the association, anu that tho balance of the funds be equally distributed amouj the Karori, Upper Hutt, and Petooe Bifle Clabs." - .' It was also resolved: that there bo placed on' record the' indebtedness fait towards Messrs, W. Jiidd, R.- Randell, A. Ballinger, i , .' J. Lissington, O. Trovethlck, W.-.E. Jaekson, H. Hawthorn, J. Greenwood, and A. Allen, for their: efforts, as the oTijinal founders of ■ tho hEsooiatibn," in • the cause of riSe shooting'; in th» dietrict, ■ '.'■■ : ■' :-'.' ..'.■ '■. .■'■'...■ ;■ '.- : . The minute.book, and papers of;the associatieii were," by resolntion, vested in the custody of Mr. W. .Tudd. , ..-. ■ ,:>'.■ . : : v '.;■ ■ ;-.," ■ \ ; olcs'of thnnks io 'tho executive and.-lion-ioraiy. officers .of the association," and'the'chair-, man, ■ terminated the proceedings, ~ : : ,