NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 15, 18 January 1924, Page 8

NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION

< ANNTTAL CHAMPIONSHIP , •' MEETING-

,- i The annual championship t meeting of 'the National Rifle Association will be • held at Trentham, commencing'on 18th i;March, at the conclusion of the Domin- ■/ fen AriajJiifle .Association meeting. The i |j!.R.AV meeting opens with a rapid-fir-/|ftg match, 300 yards, at a. 4ft target, ■ ten rounds, two sighting shots, prone ', position... The other matches are:—A i. series „ (compulsory).—Snapshooting, 300 ! yards,-.-medium target, ten rounds; tile I Competition, 200 yards, five rounds; nioviing target, 200 yards, six rounds ;• service championship; champion service ffeams' match. B series, rifle championV;ship.—Opening match, 300 yards, 500 (yards,. 600 yards, seven shots at each distance; Mai-lborough match, 300 yards and 500 yards, ten shots at each disj;fence; Auckteind match, 300 yards and 1600 yards, tea shots at each distance; j Wellington match, 500 yards' and .600 j yards, ten shots at each distance; Can- . jterbury m,atch,- 600 yards,' ten .shots; jPawkes Bay 'match, "'9OO yards, ten \ shots; Taranaki match, 800 yards,' ten ishots; King's Prize, 900 yards,, ten shots. . Special aggregate matches: Trentham agifjregate, Bisley ' ; aggregate, ' grand' aggregate. ■Dominion—: match, 'fifHeen shotis .at '60^ ' yards" ' and • %i shots at 1000 yards; Imperial aggrei gate:-in"Marihorough;' Canterbiir^; Otago; ' ■.•Taranaki, and Dominion matches. Cham- . '.pion team match, seven shots.each at 300 yards, 500 yards, 600 yards." ColonI'ial Ammunition Co.'s Cup, aggregates in. r^Stf)- -: -?a.#es. Bay, and -' Taranaki;: ■iriatoheSj'ilong'ran'ge'shpoting. '/Ri^e Club .-' champion", team match/all scores in belt' patches, except final, to count. North .and South--Island match, 20 men aside ,300 yards, 500-yards, 600 yards, seven ■ dhots ai. each.distance. R. Hughes, V.D., will be the executive officer in charge of the I meeting;-'and-President W. G. Felling;liam the secretary. The Executive Com'niittee comprises:—President H. T 'Marshall, M.C., Colonel R. J. Collins C.M.G., Colonel R. Hughes, Lieut.-Col-lonel T. B. Cresswell, Majors P. B. Henaerson,and V;,Dunne, Presidents W N :Masefleldv;G. G. Ashley, F. J. Silvins and -V^ iDonald: ■■•• i i J Entries will be received up to -TJues(day, 4th March:- '■ Free railway-warrants- : will be. isstied to Trentham. /"The caterjing a-nd- arrangements are as they were' (last year...

-r To" m£ rr?^.. afternoon the Suburbs ilsifle' Club will fire the third match in the third'series at ranges of 500 and 600 (yards. Scores will also count for the iMorrison and Newton Cups. On Tuesday next (Anniversary Day) the club wiill hold a big field day at Trentham, ■vv-hen the "Daily Mail" will We held. Seven shots and,two optional lighters will be fired over all ranges, 300 : its 1000 yards. Special handicaps have (,tf£en arranged and a lengthy prize list has been provided. , The principal ;trophies will include: the "Daily- Mail" (Got, Sir John and.Lady Luke Cup lapd'the Memorial Cup. Weather permit;nng, the members will be accompanied by their lady, friends,'and it is an.rticipated that a most enjoyable day will jbe spent. . Leading scores to date in the ••club championship are:—R. H. Hunt ■415, T. Goodall 410, R. E. Hester 406 Ui Smart 405, A. 'Harris 401.