N.Z. RIFLE ASSOCIATION

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10181, 6 March 1911, Page 5

N.Z. RIFLE ASSOCIATION

THE TRENTHAM MEETING,

[By Telegraph — Press Association.']

TKEJNTHAM, Last Night. The New Zealand Rifle Association's annual meeting -was commenced on the Traitham Range* on Friday, in unsettled' weather. -The first match, the Carbine' Cup, was won by Rifleman R. Stewart (Weber), who scored 100 points, and takes the cup for one year, and wins £5. Corporal F. A. Wayne (Poputumoa) 99, and Lieut. Cornes (Ohinemuri) 99, each won £4. The Wairarapa prize-winners were: Rifleman D. McLeay (Opaki) £2, Rifleman W. D. McCalmont £l, Rifleman Nat Willoughby (Gladstone) £l, Rifleman W. Winslade (Opaki) £l, and Captain C. Benton (Aifredton) £l. THE WELLINGTON MATCH. 600 Yards, ten shots; possible 50. £5—L.-Opl. J. Hunt (P. and T., Wellington) 50 £4—Rifln.„C. J. Franklin (Weber) 50 £4—Rifln. G. Craw (Linton) 49 £3—y.-M.-S. Facer (Port Chalmers) 48 £3—Pvt. G. A. Eyles (Dannevirke) 48 £2—Pvt. H. Allen (VVanganui) 48 £2—Rifleman J. Bradley (Dun- , ©din) . 48 £2—!xufin. v. Needham (Linton) 48 £2—Rfln. J. E. Sutton (Shannon) 48 £2—Captain Skinner (Auckland) 48 rifleman Benton (Featherston), 45; Rifleman R, McLean (Weber),' 45; and Rifleman W. -N". Kummer (Te Wharau) 44, each won £l. jivUiiiSGN MATCH, 7 shots at a 'target • three hundred :' yardfji away,: the target being a head and shoulders with an eight-inch bull's eye, invisible to the firer, and is exhibited seven times at irregular intervals for four seconds.— £s—Keenan, (Wellington), 35; £4 —Nelson vcanterbury) 35; Wilkie (Upper Hutt), Woolley (Auckland), and Moss (Greymouth) ail 35, each receive £2 13s 4d.

NELSON MATCH, ten shots at. 500 yards.— Drummond (Westport), put up a, possible. (Auckland 1 ) scored 49, and Caldwell (Karon;, fc>wanson (Ruahine), Pearce (S'andon), Fisher (Stoke), and «svans (Taranaki) each scored 48. *j'orty-sevens -were numerous. The match will be resumed to-day. AUCKLAND MATCH, 500 and 600 yards, ten shots.— £s—Penny (bandon) 91; £4—Ha- (Karori) 94; £4—Loveday (Woodville) 93; £4— H. Moss (Bluff) 93; £3—Mawley (Oamaru) 93; £3—Oresswell.'(Taumarunui) 92; - £2—Frank (Nelson) 92;; £2—Needham (Linton) 91. Twenty-seven teams are -en tiro J from rifle clubs for the 'Colonial' Ammunition Company's shield > tf/inch decides the. champion ciub of New Zealand. The tea ns an. c<r.i.rosed of five represent:!: \\ "s each. : The following are the leaie vs. v.: the Trentham aggregate;— £5 - Penny (Sandon) 186; £4—Needham : (Linton) 185; £4—'Frank (Nelson) 183; £3—Hay (Karori) 183; £3— Craw (Linton) 182.