"DAILY MAIL" RIFLE CONTEST.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3157, 7 April 1909, Page 5

"DAILY MAIL" RIFLE CONTEST.

(To the Editor). ' Sir,—The "Daily Mail" Empire Day Rifle Contest, of 1909, which will be shot on May 24th (Empire Day) is rousing even more interest than last year's match, and already some 300 rifle clubs in all parts of His Majesty's Dominions, have entered teams. Secretaries of British Rifle Clubs are invited to enter theiu clubs without delay. Communications should be addressed to the Organising Secretary, "Daily Mail" Empire Day. Rifle Contest, Carmelite House, London, England. Letters of encouragement and appreciation have" 1 " been received from:—Field Marshal Earl Roberts, V.C., Earl Meatb, Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood, V.C., Lord Curzon of Kedieston, Rt. Hon. R. B. Haldane, Lord Strathcona. In the course of his remarks, Lord Roberts writes:—"l heartily approve of your Empire Day Rifle Contest. Such a competition, carried out simultaneously in all parts of our Dominions, cannot fail to impress on our fellow subjects the vastness of the British Empire and I the necessity for all her sons at home and overseas preparing themselves to defend their noble heritage, should the doing so ever arise." The"following gentlemen have kindly consented to act on our Advisory Committee: —Earl Meath (the founder ot Empire Day"*, Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood, V.C., Lord Cheylesmore (President of the National Rifle Association), Colonel Crosse (Secretary of the National Rifle Association). In In view of our success last year, I am extremely anxious to obtain a record number of entries by Empire Day, and hence I hope the secretaries of clubs will forward me their entries without delay.—l am, etc., EVELYN WRENCH, Organising Secretary. Carmelite House, London, England^