MINIATURE RIFLES
EMPIRE COMPETITIONS. CHIEF TROPHY TO SOUTH AFRICA. NEW ZEALAND IN THIRD PLACE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The National Rifle Association has issued the results of the 1937 match for the King George V. trophy, and the awards in connection with‘the Imperial Challenge Shield competitions, throughout the Empire. These competitions for miniature rifle shooting have been conducted annually since 1910, with the object of encouraging boys of British birth, between the ages of 12 years and 19 years, to learn how to use a rifle. The King George V. trophy was won by South Africa for the eighth occasion since its presentation in 1925, by the late King. South Africa’s team of three thousand strong with an average of 86.847 points (an improvement of 2.5 points over its winning score in the previous year), has established a further record.
Great Britain took second place with an average of 82.484, and New Zealand third position with an average of 77.33.
The scores of Britain and New Zealand are slightly lower than in 1936. Neither Canada nor Australia produced sufficient competitors to qualify. Of the five Imperial trophies an Australian unit from Claremont (West Australia) won two, (the senior shield and the Lord Milner trophy). A British unit, the Royal Grammar School 0.T.C., Guildford, won Earl Jellicoe’s sword, and another British unit, St. Peter’s School, Seaford, Sussex, won Earl Haig’s sword. The Lawrence Royal Military School, Sanawar, India, won the junior shield. New Zealand ’'competitors won twenty-eight silver and nineteen bronze medals of honour. The honours list of the best hundred units in the Empire includes fourteen New Zealand units, headed by St. Patrick’s College, Silverstream, which won the trophy presented by Lord Jellicoe when Governor-General. This unit was 14th in. the Empire order of merit. Roxburgh High School was next among the New Zealand units, and then followed Rotorua High School, St. Andrew’s College, McGlashan College, Christ’s College, St. Bede’s College, Waitaki Boys High School, Winton District High School, Auckland Grammar
School, Wanganui College, Southland Boys’ High School, Wanganui Technical School and West Christchurch District High School.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 June 1938, Page 9
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