N.Z. GUN CLUB TITLES
D. W. DAWSON’S SUCCESS MINISTER A COMPETITOR (Per Press Association.) WANGANUI, this day. The New Zealand Gun. Club championships were .continued in unfavourable weather on Saturday. The Dominion clay target titles were decided. There were 102 competitors, a record in New Zealand trap shooting. No possibles were recorded in the shooting at 21 targets, but the following broke 20 birds: D. W. Davison (Culverden), T. L. Joblin (Morere), F. E. Cox (Taumarunui), C. Wilber (Morrinsville). These four divided the prize money of £O7 10s and shot off for the championship at five birds. Davison was the only one to break five birds, and he secured the title and the trophy. Cox was the runnerup.
The Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. W. E. Parry, who was a competitor, presented the prizes. In the evening the annual meeting of the New Zealand Gun Clubs’ Association was held, when the following officers were elected: —President, Mr. R. S. Taylor (Christchurch); North Island referee, Mr. W. Woolven (Hamilton); South Island referee, Mr. L. A. S'hand (Christchurch); North Island vice-president, Mr. H. Quarterman (Wanganui); Soutln Island vicepresident, Mr. I. G. Watkins (Rangiora).
Next year’s championships were allotted to Christchurch Gun Clu-b.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19985, 10 July 1939, Page 10
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