Fish? No!

NZ Truth, Issue 1198, 15 November 1928, Page 6

Fish? No!

"DELIEVE me., if I had Zane Grey's •D money I wouldn't fish. No! I'd go over to South Africa where the bally lions are. Big game. That's the stuff!" When Richard Coeur tie Lion — otherwise Richard J. King-, of Masterton. looks at you with those keen eyes of. his you readily credit that they can glance up a gun-barrel and play havoc with the live stuff yet. . - Forty-one years ago, Richard King came to Masterton, and he is there yet, retailing sports goods irt a, shop he opened m '04. He crossed to Tasmania for the gold-rush when a youth, but after that decided that shooting : was the next best thing. His life's -'ambition has been to win the New: Zealand championship -for both rifle arid gun-shooting. If not attaining it altogether he has realized three-quarters of that ambition, because m 1903 he won the rifle championship of New Zealand, arid repeated the performance sixteen years later. Then he tied' for the New Zealand gun championship, only to be beaten m- the slioot-'off., , ' ; : • •;■ In'.additioi\^'o, his. interest m sport, R.J.'-^erved fpr six; years oh the Masterton ■Borough ' cSuncil, ,»while he has JDeen -'a. .member": of' the' Wairarapa Poweiv Board since its inception. He* is president of ;., three rifleifciubs m the, district, and he represented New Zealand on .' 't'jwd i ■.occasions m teams which won the 'Kalapore Cup .at Bisley m 1904 and visited 1 Sydney m 1921 respectively.^,