VALUE OF RIFLE SHOOTING.
EMPIRE COMPETITIONS
(Per Press Association—Copyright.) LONDON, March 11.
The Prince of Wales, in a speech at a dinner given by the National Rifle Association at the Mansion House in connection with an appeal for financial support, referred to the value to the Empire of competitions for the "King’s Shield and the Imperial Challenge Shield.
The Prince emphasised the achievement of the association in fostering overseas intercourse, and paid a tribute to its work in encouraging marksmanship, remarking that the standard of rapid fire in the British Exneditionary Force was eo high the Germans were convinced it could only have been caused by machine-guns. Lord Cbevlesmore read Mr Bruce’s cablegram honing that the a~-eal would receive well-deserved success. He also read a cable from . Colonel Merrett and one from New Zealand schoolboys.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLV, Issue 10350, 13 March 1925, Page 5
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