MORRIS=TUBE SHOOTING.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 916, 8 September 1910, Page 9

MORRIS=TUBE SHOOTING.

; {.AN; ASSOCIATION FORMliil).. ;.! '•••: Further step's in/connection' with the formation of a Morris Tube Rifle Association were completed-last evening, at ■■a-' large and Enthusiastic '■ meeting, • which-.washeld,-at,the New-' Zealandia Hotel,:; represoiitatiy.es of.'- eighteen -clubs.being: present... Mr. Toag'ue, represehtihg.the.Ga{s;Cpmpany,. was, voted to the: chair.- : , A {committee -of ■ five members, .with.;the .chairman- and-,sec- ; ■retary,-,,'wae .appointed to go, into the ■matter of sotting -up. a.-draft sheet -of lilies. ■•: Disoiissiou ■ as - to ■ tho merits of. miniatiire and. Morris: tube .shooting took .rjlacto,; and the committee';, were authorised. to go into the matter; and report, at next .meeting. AH. information; aa - to - , securing -;hu association' range/, and the'/'flnaupial.- 'position- ;.ot ;yarious clubs, was-also left to the comimittee,-,: • •.The;/- 'Wellington : AVorking Men's Club: generously -invited any, individual member; ; pf{any club .to their range, when,, ammunition ~ would, '-be supplied gratis/ and meet with •, tho ' best: hospitality of.the -club. • '■' : -- : <. ;. ■■" A .Morris:tube,.,match, was -fired on the Zealandia Range last evening, betSvee'n the -.: "Evening': Post" . and The Turnbull, Hickson,: : and. Gooder Rifle Club;. ten... men - a-side,.;; aperture '• sights, i/ The ; result was a win for:tlie ''Post' , ', team by-12 points. Scores:— '"Evening Post."—H; .Bishop, 34; T. Baker, 34V A. France,' 33; 0. Uaker, 33; AV. Haymes ,33; A. Allan, 32: W. Blundell, 31; ,AY. Hill, 31; R.. Sando, 81;. G. Beu, SO;.'total, 322.. Turnbull, Hickson and Gooder.—A. C.Bellamore; ■35; G. Greenslade, 33; E. Childs, 32; 0. S. Gddber, . 31; A. Lowe,' 31; :E: Hill,. 31; B. J. Atkinson, 31; R{' Lloyd, 30j'.'W.'.'Huxtable, 28;. G. Hill, 28; total, 310. V : : '.'.■" -■•