RIFLE SHOOTING.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 March 1929, Page 5

RIFLE SHOOTING.

(Australian PrCss Association) (United Service.)

(Received this day at 8' a.m.) MELBOURNE, March 9

In the final stage of the King’s, ten shots at 600, 800 and 900 yards, the early shooters! had the advantage. By three o’clock the wind was strong and bumpy making a real test of markmanship. . •.£ After the 600 yards, Palmer, Little and Ewart (Victoria) led with 236, James (New Zealand) being tenth with 232. No other New Zealanders were in the first twenty-eight. At' 800 yards New Zealand showed prominence, Feast doing well with 46, placed himself four points ahead of his nearest rival at the time. At the conclusion of the 800 yards, \V. Feast was top with 280, Palmer, (Victoria) 280, James (New Zealand) third, 278, Clarke (Victoria) fourth, 276, Boon (New Zealand) tenth, 2/o, G. Mayhew (Victoria) eighteenth, -74. At nine hundred yards New Zealand struck disaster. ' Feast who had shot with great consistency and was in front cracked hopelessly with sixteen He went down in a particularly fierce squall. The vagaries of the wind can he estimated when ha got his first bull with thirty-two degrees windage. Numerous shooters got the signal clear target James could only manage 37, making hist total 315. v G Mayhew (Fitaroy, Melbourne) won the King’s prize with an aggregate score. Mitchell, a; brilliant South Melbourne young marksma,n got an aggregate of 321 but had only entered in C and C series of the King a prize. ‘ ~