SHOOTING MATCH.

Motueka Star, Volume III, Issue 124, 21 October 1902, Page 5

SHOOTING MATCH.

The triangular shooting match between teams selected by the Stoke Rifles and the Takaka and Motueka Mounted Rifles took place at the Whakarewa butts on Saturday. The day was a most unpleasant one, showers of rain falling at frequent intervals throughout the day. A capital lunch, supplied by Mr 0. Holyoake, was partaken of on the ground. The following are the scores : STOKE RIFLES. 300yds 500yds Total

BANANAS VERSUS BEEF. N. Z. Times. Now that a further rise in meat is announced, some people in this country may think of imitating the tactics of certain ingenious Americans, who are planning to give “a body blow to the Beef Trust” by adopting vegetarian principles. Through the action of that particular trust, the price of meat in June last reached an almost prohibitive pitch in New York, and the Vegetarian Society at once set about “improving the occasion.” It gave a dinner to over two hundred persons, to demonstrate that food as pleasant and nutritious as that derived from flesh could be t btained from vegetable products, to

the physical and financial benefit of the eaters. Following this, Mr A. F: Spawn, a South Australian then in New York, announced a fruit dinner, to show in especial the value of the banana as an article of diet. He invited among others, the chief physicians and food experts of the city and submitted the following menu :- r Cream of banana soup, banana crackers, banana bread, banana fritters, banana croquettes, banana coffee, banana rice pudding, banana plum pudding, evaporated bananas. Mr Spawn, who declares that banana flour contains 23 per cent more nutriment than ordinary wheat flour, is about to establish large banana factories in South America for the preparation of banana foods, which he hopes to introduce to the public of the United States. It is a curious fact worth noting that the scientific name of the banana describes it as the food of the wise men, it having formed the staple food of the wise men of India ; and Humboldt mentions in his travels that he remarked that the intelligence of the natives in America was in proportion to the cultivation of the banana in the district. Some time ago Professor George Lincoln Goodale, of Harvard College, delivered a lecture on “Tropical Fruits” at the Lowell Institute, and in the course of his remarks declared the banana to be at the head of all fruits as a food. No other tropical fruits, the lecturer stated, approaches the banana in point of nutrition. He also mentioned the fact that one acre of well grown banana trees is fully as productive as would be twenty acres of wheat. Ur Ussery, of St. Louis, who has had’a long and extensive experience among typhoid patients has expressed his emphatic opinion that the banana is the best food for them. It is necessary, however, that the .fruit should be well ripened, and as most of the bananas consumed in this country are plucked in an unripe condition, the question of having speedy communication with the islands and suitable means of distribution is important. The present scarcity and high price of meat in New Zealand and Australia may prove to be a blessing in disguise, for it can hardly be doubted that the people of these countries would be healthier and happier if they consumed less butcher k meat and more fruit.

Sergt All port 30 34 64 Pvt Paaps... 28 34 62 Corpl Paaps 30 29 59 Lieut Allport 33 25 58 Corpl Machirus ... 28 29 57 Pvt Calder 27 27 54 Col-Sgt Wanstall 25 28 53 Corpl Ching 3i 21 52 Lc-Corpl Balck ... 24 24 48 Pvt Best... 23 21 44 Totals 279 272 55i TAICAKA MOUNTED RIFLES. Corpl Barnett t 29 28 57 Sergt Barnett 3° 26 56 Trpr Barnett 28 26 54 Sergt Smith 28 26 54 Trpr Peterson ... 26 27 53 Trpr Bate... 22 27 49 Sergt Reilly 22 27 49 Trpr Winter 20 21 4i Lieut Kirk 22 17 39 Sergt Emms 18 14 32 Toted ... 484 MOTUEKA MOUNTED RIFLES. Trp/ Haycock 2 7 50 Trpr Scott 29 21 5° Sergt Askew 23 24 47 Trpr Coppins 25 22 47 Corpl Cate 20 20 40 Trpr Brereton 18 20 38 -Trpr Loveridge ... 26 8 34 Trpr Moffatt 16 17 33 Sergt Chittenden 22 6 28 Trpr Cook 20 7 27 Total... 226 168 394