RIFLE SHOOTING.
THE ARMY MEETING. NIGHT FIRING AND BATTLE PRACTICE. TRENTHAM, March 13. The army rifle meeting will conclude on Friday, when the King's medal will he fired for. This is a distinct match, 100 men with the hest aggregate in the championship series being eligible. The ranges are deliberate fire at 600 yds, fire with movement at 600yds to 1000yds, rapid and snapshots at 300yds. A feature »f)f the meeting has been the entire absence of sickness. Brigadier Sinclair-Burgess (Chief of General Staff) expressed high appreciation of the exemplary conduct of all ranks. Details of matches fired to-day are: HOTCHKISS GUN ANTI-AIRCRAFT MATCH. Possible 80 points. 60s—Waikato Mounted. Rifles (Sergeant H. Brown, leader) 27 30s Wellington - East Coast Mounted Rifles (Sergeant N. Smith, leader) 25 20s —Nelson and Marlborough Mounted Rifles (Sergeant M. Orchard, leader) ... ... 17 Seven teams competed. LEWIS GUN ANTI-AIRCRAFT MATCH. Possible 80 points. 60s —Northern Engineers (Sergeant R. Smith, leader) -r----50s—First Battalion Auckland Regiment (Sergeant C. Marrett, leader) 24 30s —First Battalion Otago Regiment (Sergeant R. Familton, leader) • ... ... 24 Seventeen teams competed. BATTLE PRACTICE. Open to Teams of Territorials. IGOs—First Battalion Hawke's Bay Regiment (Sergeant H. Ellis, loader) 407 80s—First Battalion Waikato Regiment (Sergeant A. Playle, loader) 318 Six teams competed. CADETS MATCH.—TiIe Competition. Moving target at 200yds; snapshooting at 200yds; deliberate fire at 500yds. 60s —Corporal G. Beattie, Hawke's Bay 70 40s —Sergeant F. Townsend, Auckland ,U 9 30s—Cadet B. Tasker, Auckland... 66 CADET BADGE, for Highest Aggregate at all practices. A. Leyland, Palmerston North ... 361
NEW AUSTRALIAN RECORD. MELBOURNE, March 13. P. A. Pavey won the King's Prize at the Williamstown Rifle Range, creating a new Australian King s Aggregate record with a score of 340. Pavey is a Victorian, as is G. Cartledge, who was second with 338, while F. JSelson, with 334, is a New South Wales representative.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 130, 14 March 1930, Page 2
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