RIFLE SHOOTING.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 December 1919, Page 2

RIFLE SHOOTING.

. IMPERIAL CHALLENGE SHIELD. Further details of the Imperial Challenge Shield competitions show that, the junior competition was won by the Coleman Street Ward School Company of the First Ciy of London Imperial Cadet 3, with a score of 841 and an average of 93 4. An Australian team was second with ah average of 031 points, and a Worthing (England) team third with 88.6 points. Then came No. 2 platoon, New Ply- | mouth High School Cadets 88.8 points, No. 1 platoon New Plymouth High School Cadets 86.1 | points, No. 3 platoon New Plymouth High l School Cadets 85.7 points. Each platoon wins prize-money amounting to £3 and a bronze medal for each of the competitors. No 4 platoon, New Plymouth High School Cadets secured 10th place with 83.7 points, and they win £3 prize-money. In tho senior competition. No. I platoon of the 3-27 th Infantry Regiment Senior Cadets, Australia, was successful with the remarkable score of 882, or an average of 98. Australian teams also secured 2nd, 3rd, and 4th places, and No. 1 platoon, New Plymouth Boys' High School was fifth with an of 91.8 points, winning a prize, £3 and bronze medals No. 4 platoon, New Plytmouth Boys' High School was 13th. with 88.8 points and W ?1 No - 3 Platoon occupied 22nd position with 85.6 points, and won £2, and No 2 Platoon was 30th with 83,5 points, and also secured £2 pri: money. Lieutenant-Colonel Raymond W. Ffennell, of South Africa, who donated the challenge shields for annual competition, together with the bronze replica, as well as sifter and bronze commemorative medals and prize-money, has written to Mr. W. H. Moyes, principal of the New Plymouth Boys' High School as follows: I beg to convey to your cadet corps and yourself my hearty congratulations on the astounding success of your teams In the Imperial Challenge Shield Competitions, senior and Junior, for 1919. I see that In the I senior competition you have secured sth, 13th, j 22nd, and 30th prizes, and In the Junior com* I petition the 4th, sth, 6th, and 10th prizes. Out I of the nine prizes won altogether by New Zealand your school has won eight his year. If t may draw a deduction it is not that your school has won too many, but that the rest of New Zealand must win imore. . . . For its all round excellence In musketry, the New Plymouth Boys' High School Cadet Corps has been awarded a special prize of £lO and ranks fourth on the list In general proficiency of all the units that have entered for the competition this year.