"LEARN TO SHOOT!"

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 676, 29 November 1909, Page 7

"LEARN TO SHOOT!"

MINIATURE RANGE'OPENED.' 1 Tho miniature rifle range'habit-among -the' schools spreading lite; an ,epidemic. '''Learn.' to; shoot! is a favourite - word' of- advice' with ! if-ord Roberts, . and the. schoolboys; of Wellington are .taking the advice ; to. heart.: On Sat- : urday afternoon , a , large crowd assembled in the grounds .of the WellingtM South School ■i! opening of tho now miniature rifle was;, performed: by Mr.. R. A. \A nght;. M.P., who ip the course of hiSTcmarks_stated that : the.school,,.was opined m June, 1696, when there were six class-rooms, sis teachers, and; 300 children. ~ The building was- destroyed; by. fire in ;1905,. and; from- its fishes arose ihp fine brick,;cdificoMThich was,: as it were, a tree of -knowledge" to: 7GB children under ,20 teachers,. ; .These figures .-went to show- the;, growth and; progress of , the' -school' SL?'n" Ct; • P?" ippnths' ago. the School Committee dccided on having • a miniature -rille range. Haying no funds, a: work-• ,ng bee was - formed, and, with the - aid of a .£lO grant from the Government, the range "was completed. Mr. bright .'iliftde;.complimentary' reference to the cbmmitteo lor the good work .'which it had. done,--and 'in. terms of praise referred ■to Mr. ,Gedrgo Bus (now on holiday. leave) .who had-been headmaster since themception of the school. Tho only other teachar then on the .staff', v?ho \Vas' still there was Mr M lvonzio, now acting .headmaster. Mr! Wright then, fired, the first' shot (managing to damage the target), and; declared: tho ranee open.'-'

r Ain°ng three present -were Major T. W M-Donald, Officer Commanding Public School Cadets, Major M'Kenzje, and ;the Wellington South Schpol _Cadets (m uniform),'- and mem-' t>ers of the. School Committee, who 'also de- : monstrjited their,- prowess with the rifle.