CADET SHOOTING

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 852, 21 December 1929, Page 15

CADET SHOOTING

TAKAPUNA GRAMMAR’S

SUCCESS WINS “THE PRESS” SHIELD Scoring the highest average in the • Dominion, Taka puna Grammar School • cadets have this year won the "Christ- ; church Press” Xorth Island Challenge ! Shield for riut shooting. The trophy ] is annually competed for by teams ! representing the various cadet companies. Founded to encourage ritie shooting among cadets, the competition is in two sections, a shield being presented to each island. The contest is open to teams of boys under 17 selected from various companies. Fired with .22 calibre rifles, the contest comprises deliberate firing, rapid and standing deliberate practices. The six leading tennis for Kew Zealand land were all from the Northern Command in this year’s competition. The scores were: Av. C Cow, sth Cadet Bn., Auck. Regt. 69.3 D Coy., 7th Cadet Bn., Auck. Regt. 65.4 A Coy., 6th Cadet Bn., Auck. Regt. 62.5 r> Cov., 7th Cadet Bn., Auck. Regt. 61.5 C Coy., Ist Cadet Bn., Hauraki Regt. 59.8 A Cov., Ist Cadet Bn., Waikato Regt. 59.3 C Cow, Ist Cadet Bn., Nelson Regt. 59.0 A Coy., Ist Cadet Bn., Nelson Regt. 55.1 B Coy., Ist Cadet Bn., Hawke’s Bay Regt 57.8 A Coy., Ist Cadet Bn., Hauraki Regt. 0<.7 B Coy., 3rd Cadet Bn., Hawke’s Bay Regt • • • • 57.1 A Cov., 2nd Cadet Bn., Hauraki Regt. 54.1 C Coy., Ist Cadet Bn., Auck. Regt. 50.6 A Cov., 2nd Cadet Bn., Waikato Regt. 50.4 B Coy., 6th Cadet Bn., Auck. Regt. 55.3 The winners, the Takapuna Grammar School, hold the North Island shield and receive a cash prige of £lO. as do the leaders in the South Island, the C Company, First Cadet Battalion, Nelson. The names of the Takapuna team are:—E. A. Blair F A. F. Lewis, F. H. Collingwood’, A. E. Long, R. Cornwell, J. Richardson, G. C. Daniel, E. S. Turtill, J. R. R Lee, F. C. Williamson. Each member of the team will receive a silver medal presented by the “Chirstchurch Press.”

An Earl Gave Them His Name

SANDWICHES OF MANY SORTS

From the historic day when the Earl of Sandwich in the midst of a game ot cards, which he was unwilling to interrupt, cut two slices ot bread and laid a slice of meat between them, the sandwich has been an institution. Especially is this so in New Zealand whose genial climate encourages us in ail open-air life and in the altresco meals which are its inevitable accompaniment. To such meals we have come to regard the sandwich as essential. Yet all too seldom does the New Zealand housewife exhibit any originality in the making of savoury sandwiches. Now and again, at bridge parties and dances, one jneets with sandwiches whose novelty is as spice to the appe -

ite; but as a rule the traditional is, like the poor, always with ns. We encounter it in teashops, and have become sickemngly familiar with it when travelling. V\ ho does not know it— the be-mnstarded slice of hard corned beef or fat ham that makes but a .lender pretence of holding together two sparingly-buttered pieces of bread It says much for the popularity of the sandwich that w c go on eating it, even in so repellent a guise. Or perhaps it is because the traveller has generally hunger to serve as sauce. As for the sandwiches with whicl innumerabie small children go oil tc school each day. I have sometimes wondered whether the mothers who cu such lunches ever devote any though to the preparing of the food thatl- - comnoee their children s midday meal. Day after day in any schoo playground, you may observe the sam< children munching the same grea “doorsteps” of bread and jam or breac and cheese, which having been care t lessly wrapped in paper (and generall in newspaper) have become dry am tasteless long before the lunch hou has come round. One of the mos pathetic Sights I ever remember t. have seen was that of a small boy oi his way to school, deliberately throw ing his lunch away. 1 investigatedlth package, and found it to contain severa so-called sandwiches, which were com posed of some pieces of beet-root, care lessly inserted between some thic slices of bread! Dire poverty may haw been the reason for thrusting on small child so unappetising a luncl Certainly there could be no otnc “xhe'pity of it is that children lov sandwiches even more than do growl ups Watch a number of small peopl at a children’s party and note whic it is that disappears first—the sane wiches or the pink-faced cakes. It tt sandwiches are savoury and novel—we vou may have quantities of cake lcit over, hut assuredly you will have few sandwiches. . . The more daintily cut a sandwich is. the more certain is its appeal, x or afternoon teas and suppers it u essential that the bread out ot which the sandwiches are to be fashioned shoul.-; be of wafer thinness. Should you fine it difficult to achieve this, employ ttu following method. Select a square samt wich loaf and cut oil the crusts on Three sides, leaving the hard bottom crust to cut against. Butter each slmi before cutting and cut horizontally ,th hard crust will lessen any risk of cut ting the hand. Lay the s * lce £’ £%ake cut them, in a loose heap. Now take one slice, place the filling on it, m another slice over it neatly, and s< continue, stacking the sandwiches a. they are filled. Make the four sides oi the stack even, and then c nt from corner to corner in tne mass. tty method you will make little tnangula shapes which are sufficiently dainty f n anv occasion. Triangular sandwiches I find, invariably present a better ap pearance than those which are cut in squares or oblongs. As to the fillings, personally, I always endeavour to introduce a UttK shredded lettuce into savoury sandwiches, and to serve the sandwiches ir a nest of crisp lettuce leaves. Dthe. garriishings for a plate of sandwiches may be provided by sticks of '"- rtender, curled, parsley fronds. oliveor gherkins; but lettuce is always first favourite. . , - . ~ Where a hostess is m search c> -C »»e thing unique in the way of sam. withethe following American noveltj '= h be given a trial.

RACING FIXTURES

DECEMBER 26, 00, Jan. 1, 2—Auckland R.C. 26^—Waipukurau J.C. 26—Westland Et.C. 26, 27—Taranaki J.C. 26, 28 —.Dunedin J.C. 26, 27, 28— Manawatu R.C. 2s', Jan.. I—Greyxnouthl—Greyxnouth J.C. JANUARY I—Walkouaiti R.C. I—Wyndham R.C. 1, 2—Wairarapa R.C. 1, 2—Hawke’s Bay J.C. | l, 2—Stratford R.C. I, 2 —Marton J.C. >, 3—Southland R.C. 7, B—Reefton8 —Reefton J.C. 9, 11—Thames J.C. 11, 13—Vincent J.C. 15, 16—Foxton R.C. 17, IS—Oamaru J.C.