WEST COAST RIFLE ASSOCIATION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3079, 28 December 1908, Page 4

WEST COAST RIFLE ASSOCIATION.

ANNUAL MEETING.

By Telegraph—Press Association. WANGANUI, December 21. £The annual meeting of the West Coast Kifle ■ Association was commenced on the Putiki range on Boxing Day. The weather was beautifully line, and the attendance is four less thanlast year, the number competing Mn championship matches'bewatui and^Taranak i—were completed/ andJhTfirst'range of "the Wellington match was fired.jfTheFfollowing are §Manawatu Match: —Rifleman Henry, Opaki, £4, 66; Napier, £2 10s, 64; £2, 64; Corporal Forbes, Napier, £1 10s, 63; Rifleman Banks, Kimbolton; Rifleman McMurray, Taradale; Corporal Kells, Palmerston North; Ririsman Kennar, Linton; Sergt. Marrett, Taranaki; 63 each, £1; Rifleman Keene, Tararua; Private Blashard, Taranaki; Rifleman Needham, Weber; Rifleman Willoughby, Gladstone;. Rifleman Hyde, ; Opaki; Rifleman Mo Caimont, Opaki; Sergt Needham, Palmerston North, 62 each; Private Mass, Wellington; Rifleman Jarvis, Taradale; Private Deihl, Dannevirke; Private King, Wellington; Private Brown,, Dannevirke; Rifleman McLeay, Whakataki, 61 each; Rifleman Venneil, Te Wharau; Private Patton, Dannevirke; Rifleman Marsh, Mangoice; Rifleman Mcintosh, Opaki; Rifleman Newth, Linton; Rifleman Petersen, Tararua; Private Soler, Wanganui; Lieut. Neilson, Dannevirke;. Sergt. Humphreys, Hawke's Bay; Rifleman Olseu, Tararua; Sergt. Stock, Palmerston North; Rifleman King, Opaki, 60 each, allss each. Taranaki Match. —Rifleman Franklin, Weber, £4, 66; Rifleman Feast, Opaki, £2 10s, 65; Private -Allen,. Wanganui, £2,. 65; Private Patton, Dannevirke, £1 10s, 64; Private Griffiths, Wanganui; Rifleman Olsen, Tararua; Rifleman Henry, Opaki; Rifleman Kummer, Te Wharau, 63, £1 each; Rifleman Nix, Kimbolton, 62, £1; Rifleman King and Mcintosh, Opaki; Lieut. Holland,. Hutt Valley; Corp. Forbes, Napier; Rifleman McMurray, Taradale; 'Capt. Baltrop, Manchester Rifles, 62, 10s each; Private Rashleigh, Eketahuna,; Rifleman Thorpe, Stratford; Sergt. Needham, Palmerston North; Private Mayhew, Manchester Rifles; Riflemen N. F. and N, L.. Willoughby, Gladstone; Lieut. Neilson, Dannevirke; Capt,. Scott, Wanganui; Corporal Kells, Palmerston North, 61, 10s each; Riflemen Jtsairstow, Hyde and McGalmont, Opaki: Corporal Crawford, Napier; Rifleman Vennell, Te Wharau;. Capt. Craw, Linton; 61' each ss; Rifleman McKenzie OpaKi; Private Frederick, R-»yal Rifles; Private Blanchard, Taranaki; Colour-Sergt.. Harrison, Wanganui, 60, 5s each. Counted out—Riflemen Newth and Franklin, Corporal Huwyler, Privates Smith and Lucas.

The eighth annual general meeting of the Association was held in the evening, Major Hughes presiding over some twenty-seven members. The date of the nex*: meeting was left in the hands of tha Executive Committee. Members asked that a date be fixed which will not necessitate travelling on Christmas Day. The Executive Committee was' asked to urge the Government to give assistance to the Association. It was resolved that tyro prizes be added to future programmes..