VOLUNTEER NEWS.
TARANAKI RIFLE ASSOCIATION. Following are the prize-taking scores in the matches fired at Stratford on Wednesday:— New Plymouth Match, 00 and 500 yards; seven shots at each range. Oorpl. Halbert Patea Rifles £2 10s' "... 65 Sergt. Thorpe Wairoa M.R. £2 ...• ... 63 Oorpl. White Pate;» Rifles £1 10s ... 63 Oorpl. Speck Stratford M,R. £1 6s ... 63 Lieut. Hooker Taranaki Rifles £1 ... 61 Adjt, Taunton New Plymouth 17s 6d ... 61 Pte. Johnson Patea Riiles 17s 6d ... 61 Mr Marrett New PlymoKth 15s ... 60 Pte. Carey Patea Rifles 16s ... 60 Mr Madden Stratford R.O ISs 60
Lieut, Paterson Hawera Rifles 12s gd ... 60 Pte. A. Humphries Taranaki Guards 10s 60 Mr McKay Manaia Rifle Club 10s ... 59 Pte Poole Hawera Rifles 7s 6d ' ... 5.9 Pte. Moore Hawera M.R. 7s 6d 69 Mr Pring Manaia Kifle Club 7s 6d ... 60 Hawera Matoh, 50C and 600 yards; seven shots at each range. Mr Madden Stratford Rifle Club £2 10s 66 Pte. M. Carey Patea Rifles £2 66 Lieut. Paterson IJawera Rifles £1 105... 64 Pte. Moore Hawera M.R. £i 55... ... 63 Corpl. White Patea Rifles £1 63 Oorpl. Speck Stratford M.R. 17* 6d ... 63 Adjt. Taunton New Plymouth 17b Gd ... 62 Mr Marrett New Plymouth 15s ... 61 Pte, Poole Hawera Rifles 15s ... ... 60 Col.-Sergt. Wells Eltham Rifles 16s ... 60 Mr Milne Manaia Rifle Clab 12s t'd ... 69 Corpl. Hulbert Patea Rifles 10s ../ Eg Pte. Diokson Patea Rifles 10s 58 Sergt. Thorpe Wairoa Mo«nted 7* 6d ... 58 Lieut. Hooker Taranaki Rifles 7s 6d ... 68 Pte. Sampson 7s 6d ... ... 67 Counted out—Corpl. Armitage 57.
, Mr William" Waldorf Astor, the American millionaire, who is now resident in England, has placed £IO,OOO •at the disposal of the National R flo Association for the encouragement of .rifle shooting throughout the country. The main conditions of the gift are that the fund is to be used for establishing rifle clubß in villages and towns, to consist of volunteers and civilians alone. They are to use rifles of service pattern, and the annual subscription is not to exceed one shilling.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 85, 21 March 1902, Page 2
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340VOLUNTEER NEWS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 85, 21 March 1902, Page 2
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