OUR SOLDIERS.
GOOD RIFLE PRACTICE,;
(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. Particular attention is being paid to the musketry instruction of the battalion, and when the Contingent leaves our shores next week the men will be thoroughly well trained in the use of the rifle. Every day squads arc taken out to the rille ranges. So far the Contingent Inis fired about dO,OUU rounds at the targets, and the men have made most satisfactory pi ogress in markmansliip. Many of them have lately made double, the scores they did ■a couple of weeks ago. There are 100 stands of Lec-Eiilield rifles in use for shooting practice, and these arms will be taken to ,smith Africa. so that the men will have the necessary rifle practice on tiie voyage. At the Ninth Contingent camp, Mr Bollard, M.H.R., presented Bugler Pattrick, of Masterton, with a watch and P. 0.0. for a sum of money, the former being from employes and the latter from his employers, the Wairarapa Co-operative Farmers’ Association, where he had been employed.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 365, 15 March 1902, Page 2
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173OUR SOLDIERS. Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 365, 15 March 1902, Page 2
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