RIFLE CADETS

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 906, 27 August 1910, Page 3

RIFLE CADETS

THE N.Z. REPRESENTATIVE TEAM. FIRING FOR THE ROBERTS TROPHY. . Yesterday morning the New Zealand representative team of schoolboy .marksmen selected to uphold the : honour of. the Dominion in t«e Imperial . Rifle Cadet Match for tbe Roberts' trophy, fired off at'Polhiir Gully range. The weather conditions. were rather. unfavourable, an unsteady rear-wind and a, variable light rendering shooting more difficult than on the previous practice (lays. • The result was an aggregate score of 476 points, or an average of 59.5 per mail out of a' possible averago of 70 per man. ■ The ranges were two —200 and 500 yards, with seven "shots at each. Last year the Now Zealand team bettered this score by ten points. Tho best. individual score was that put np.by Cadet C. RV J. Wily, of King's College, Auckland, whose aggregate of 63 points included ■31 at ■ 200 yards and 32 at 500- yards. His-tar-gets are appended:— '.'.' . ' ■' y-

i>; At 200 Yards. '

2, At 500 Yards.

.At this range the conditions were very variable. The result was all the, ... more creditable. . . .',:.. ... .... v . Details, oi ; the scoring of the team" are as follow:— ■■..■•'■ -.'■■• . : . :■'•■■- :■■ .. ,•:'•. ■ 200-500" • ' : '- • ' •■■■■■ yds."yds.-'TI. v . C. H. J. .Wily, • Auckd. 31 32 63; J. V. Ji: Cauty, Wgtn. 31-"'3 l 62 F. R.'Coombes,' Auckd. 32 30 62 • J. C.--Williamson ; , 30 31 '61" . D. B. Maclsersay, Wgtn.' 28 31 .59 S. G. M'Dougall,; Dndn.. 30 ;-.23.; 58 '\' R> S. Park,'Dndn. ...... : 24 32 56 ;P:,H. N. Frceth.-Wgtn. 28 27 '55- ' . Aggregate', score ...234 242.476; , ■. There -.ivere in attendance daring progress of .the Cresswell.and llatheson (of the Senior Cadet . Forces), Captain S. V. Trask . (Headquarters Staff),'. Lieutenant Staridish ■ -, (R.NiZ.A.), ■' and Staff-Sergeant-Major - •"■ Rose (District Headquarters).. In-'connection lvitlr the match ifc.ie : . . interesting '.to'.'notc "the ', scores "made'"tlie;'.-' previous day by the boys against a v. team of adult niarksmen/^who.defeated-. ■•■\ the youngsters; by .498' points' to 488; The . result , was twelve points bettei : ■■"•.' than the aggregate .in' , , (;he final shoot- ' ' off for the trophy, and really, a novel outiug for-the boys,'for,tho adult'team- ■ used ,- the ■' aperture-sight;' while';' ,: the 'A •'.'. cadets used, the ordinary., "Y"'-'sigh't"."~"" ■ Amongst fcho spectators was Sergeant Parslow,, of 'Auckland, t an es-NewZea?.. , . land champion riflo shot. ■■"■ ■'■ • -\