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* The New Zealand Clothing Factory will present a trophy to be fired for by the corps. Sergt. Major Macmillan will instruct the corps this evening. Intending recruits will beßWorninafter the parade. Major Sommerville has submitted to the members of the Council of the New Zealand Rifle Association the draft pro* gramme for the annual competition, which he proposes should begin at the permanent range, Trentham, near Wellington, on January 11, 1893. The programme is drawn up on similar lines to that at the March meeting, with the exception that the rapidity match disappears and a rolley firing match takes its piace. The eondidions of the latter are :— Open to twenty volunteers from each provincial volunteer district (selected in the same manner as the team for the district representative march), and to the permanent force; distance, sOOyds; number of volleys, seyen ; position, prone ; each volley will be fired as laid down in the musketry rifle exercises ; the captain of the team to give the word of command. The Defence Minister will be asked to make this match a purely military match, and to give such prizes as he may think necessary. The total amount of prize money, exclusive of trophies, is to be L 1.185.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 53, 20 October 1892, Page 2
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