EMPIRE SCHOOLS SHOOTING COMPETITION
PRESENTATION OF. SHIELDS TO NEW PLYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL.
By Tcleirranh—Press Association. New Plymouth, November 8. At the Kcw Plymouth High School's annual sports this'afternoon the Defoncu Minister presented the- International Challenge Shields, both senior and junior, won by the New Plymouth High School last year. The school also won the senior shield in 1915, but one of the supervisors not holding' commissioned rnnk, the team which put up the Empire shooting record was disqualified this your. The school gained fifteenth and forty-sixth place in the senior competition, and twenty-fifth place in the junlOi. Tho team's rifles were destroyed in the school firo last year, and members could not get rifles with which to practice. Sir James Allen slated that on account of tho shipping risk the original silver shields wore in London, but bronze replicas had been sent out, with medals for tho individual members of tho shooting teams. In congratulating the school on its record, Sir James slated that the double victory was not only an honour to the school, bit I to tho whole of New Zealand, as in Hie senior competition, open to (ill schools in (lie Empire, there were .122 competing team and 194 in tho Junior.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 39, 9 November 1917, Page 7
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205EMPIRE SCHOOLS SHOOTING COMPETITION Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 39, 9 November 1917, Page 7
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