New Zealand Rifle Association Championship Meeting
fPEK UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION^ f Dvn edsk, January 16The weather was anything birt fine for the shooting' to-day. Exhibition Match, 500, 600 and 700> yards; 7 shots at each range.— Driver, Port Chalmers, j|2o and Ogxhibition gold medal, 89 ; Cameron, Christchurch, £ljr ' and silver medal, 88 ; Grnmmett, Victoria, £10 and bronze, medal, 84; Okey f Taranaki, £S, 83 ; Scott, Wellington, £6 t 83; Armstrong, Dunedin, *p, 82. Auckland Matoh, 10 shots (kneeling), at 300 yards.— Oates, Greytown, £10, 39} Balcombe, Wellington; J88y37 j Wifcocks, Clutha, £6, 86; Oakden, Peninsula, £5 r 35; Atkinson, Wellington, £5 T 35; Dtf Grandi, Victoria, £5, 85. . Gunner Taylor, of Auckland, is leading: for the Belt with a score of 296, McKay r of Oaniaru, second with 288. Purnell,of* Wanganui, is sixth with 282. January 17. Otago Match, 300, 500, and 600 yards, seven shots each distance.— Lieutenant Eales, Victoria, .£ls, 89 ; P.O. "Williams, Wellington, £12, 82; Mr Bobertson, Peninsula, JBIO, 80; Captain Hanby r Victoria, £8, 80; Sergfc. Kempshell, West Taieri, .66, 79 j Private Henry, Welling^ ton, £5, 79. Chbistchurch. Match, 10 shots at 600> yards. — Priyate Armstrong, DnneUin, £10, 47 ; P. O. Williams, Wellington,. .£B, 47 ? Sergeant McCarty, Dnoedin, £& r 44 ' r Captain Hanby, Victoria r £5 f 41 "; Lieut, York, Waitahuna, £5, 40 ; Corpl. McKenzie, Wellington, £5, 40; Seaman France,. Wellington, : £5 t 40, . At present the highest aggregates for the Beit, including all matches finished (which count for Belt) r and the first range of the Gband- Aggregate Match are;- 1 - Gunner Taylor, Auckland Artillery, 377 p Seaman France, Wellington Navals r 371 ? Sergeant Jones, -Waikari Rifles r 370; F^ Q. Williams, Wellington Navals, 368? Lieutenant Train, Napier Artillery,. 859 p Lieutenant Okey f , TarauaM Rifles r 367, Purnell is ninth. - The next Association meeting will b* held at Napier,
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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 88, 18 January 1890, Page 2
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