ARTILLERY CUP
PASSES TO NEW OWNERS WON BY FOURTH BATTERY (From Our Own Correspondent.) HAMILTON, To-day. Advice has been received that the Challenge Cup for the most efficient battery in the Auckland brigade, which was won for the first time by the 2nd Waikato Battery in 1926 military camp, will pass into the keeping of the 4th Battery (College Rifles). The trophy has associated with it an interesting history, being presented by General Johnston after- the battle of Messines during the Great War, when the artillery units suffered greatly, and it was offered to the battery to reach efficiency again, being annexed by the 3rd battery, which has a sister battery in Auckland. The cup lay unused in Wellington until the 1926 Hopuhopu camp, where it was offered for competition. The cup was wrested from the holders by only a J per cent, of the aggregate points. Details of the marks awarded are: 4th Battery, Auckland, 79.57 per cent.; 2nd, Waikato, 79; Ist, Devonport, 77; 3rd, Auckland, 76.62; 21st. Onehunga, 75.55.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 8, 31 March 1927, Page 9
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171ARTILLERY CUP Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 8, 31 March 1927, Page 9
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