FOR RIFLEMEN

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 12, 9 October 1919, Page 4

FOR RIFLEMEN

C \BIiEfITC A" TITSP A 'ITTTKP FOTI * 10.003' RIFLE BARRELS. "We know Hint Urn rifle has not bc<m displace from its position «s a wennon of war," remarked Colonel It. J. Coll w>, president of the Dominion- Rifle Association Yesterday, lit the welcome to.So--eeant L. lovedity, «-inn°r of the \w' Prize at Bisley. "It was their abili y Vd use the rifle tliat enabled the O\A Contemptible^ , to mal;e such a suloiuJut Bland in 1914. 1, The Dominion h-M Aseociation Was to bo consratulnted mi '"o fact that by its encouragement of riflo shooting it had produced such i>, flue shot as- Serjeant Loveday. "Rifle clubs do not seek to rwd the public purse," added Colosel Collins. "They only ask to be assisted by thft Government in carrying on their natural Bport, to bo given riflp and weapons to shoot with. The nfl« clubs are lookins for new bnrrels. They don t want the Defence Department to pay for these barrels; thev will pf'.v for ihem themselves. A« the Defence Dwvtment has the facilities for geHine the_ bnw s. I nsk tliem to do so, I understand the Department is irninir. to brine out wmuj barrels. Ten thousand hnve been cabled for. and lihone Ihat.v-ithin six weeks or two months they will he available for ~S P " Colmiel Cnlliii--. bv sayin?' he. believed that after normnl ditini" bad been restored rifle Miootiiiß would be as popular a Bport as it was 1)3fore the war. ' a