VOLUNTEER NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 287, 5 December 1901, Page 2

VOLUNTEER NEWS.

NOTBS BY " VKDETTE."

The local volunteers have been going through the annual volley-firing during the .jnst two mornings under the direction 'of Stiff-Sergeant-Major Peacock.

The Frankley-road range will b# open for general practice shoqting to day.

lieutenant Whitlock, of the Stratfoid Rses, was in town yesterday for the purpose of undergoing the usual examination consequent on his promotion,

| PES PRESS ASSOCIATION.

j Wellington, December 4. I Colonels Somerville and Collins, who have managed the aflairg of the late jiVew Zealand Rifle Association since: i 1885, have been requested by the Government to occupy their old positions' as ohief exf outive officers in the management of meetings under Govern- | ment auspices. ! The results of the volun f e?r volleyfiring for the year ended February last are only now available. No. 2 Ohinomuri head the lift with an average of 16 53 points per rifle; South Wairarapa Mounted Rifles second with 15 60 p >ints ; Wellington Cycle Corps third, 15-50 ; Wellington Guards fourth, 15-2 ; Weliiuyton Civil Service Rifles fifth, 15-07; N.ipier Rifles sixth, 14.8,7.