SHOOTING.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9388, 6 March 1909, Page 5

SHOOTING.

TRENTHAM MEETING

Per Press Association Trentham, March 6,

The Nelson match, as reported yesterday, was completed. Puller details of scores are :—Nelson Match, 500 and 800 yards.—£s, Boys (Newton Rifles), 98; £4, Duley (Dannevirke), 97; £4, J. Mills (Dunedin), 97; £3, Higgins (Timaru), 96; £3, Soler (Tuamarina), 96; £3, Sergt. Lee (Oreti Rifles), 96; £3, A. Guy (Eaponga), 95; £3, Frederick (Royal Rifles), 95; £2, M. S. Kiog (Linwood), 95; £2, McLaohlan 95. Sixty take £1 each, while 12 were counted out.

The 200 yards of the Auckland range was commenced this afternoon, when Shaw (Ohinemuri), and Milroy (Nelson) were the only two to reach possibles. Several “allbuts” were recorded, while 48’s were also mnch in evidence.

TO-DAY’S SHOOTING

The weather conditions to-day are a repetition of the two previous days, but it is excessively hot. It was an excellent day for shooting after the early morning mist lifted. When the squads were lined up preparatory to marching off, Cox. Collins was greeted with applause, when he announced that an extra £IOO had been allocated to the prize list, £54 to be divided as a consolation match for those who had not won £l, and from||£sl to £IOO in the championship final. The Colonel also eulogised the excellent entry which, taken in comparison with the size of the country, was greater than the Biiley Meeting with Britain’s millions of population to draw from. He hoped to see the day when the meeting would be equal to that at Bisley. Shooting commenced to-day with the service matches at 200 and 400 yards. In the former, which is snap shooting, the targets are exposed seven times, each exposure being for three seconds, with irregular intervals between the exposures, varying from 6to 30 seconds. The target is one with an 8-inch bull’s eye invisible [to the firer, the bull’s-eye only serving to decide whether a hit has been made, each hit on the figure scoring 5 points. In the 600 yards rapid firing the target has the sahae distances and divisions as the ordinary secondclass target, but as the scores are taken at the butts the' winners will possibly not be available for the evening papers.

At Trenth&m on Thursday Volunteer match seven shots at 200, ; 600 and 800, Private Wing, J'Marton, scored 9B and tooK £1 prize. At 800 yaras he scored an all but. In this match Private J. Frederick, Royal Rifles, scored 90 and took £1 as a tyro. Charles Bate, Mangaweka, was among the prize winners in the Rifle Club match scoring 93. In the Volunteer Match, 7 shots, this district’s representatives scored as follows: Pleasants, Feilding, 88; Barltrop, Feilding, 86; Belb, Feilding, 83; Fisher, Feilding, 71; Jones, Feilding, 75; Stackhouse, Kimbolton, 80; Banks, Kimbolton, 73; Greaves, Kimbolton, 67, Nix, Apiti, 83.