RIFLE CHAMPIONSHIP MEETING.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 45, 22 February 1910, Page 7

RIFLE CHAMPIONSHIP MEETING.

P3COKD ENTRIES __-_-T3CTEDr :-- (By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

-WELLINGTON, ? this day.. || The secretary of the Dominion Rifle . A-iociation 1 (Lieutenant J. Roache) has - :: feceived 450 entries -up to the present : WM the forthcoming championship meet- . ■?V to be held at Trentham next • month. He expects that the total en-. * -St on.March 4 (the opening.:day) f will £ anything between 550 and 600. Last 1 year 525 competitors entered, and that '•'nuniher 1 constituted a record.-- There . - c 352 entries from Wellington, 45 ' from Auckland, 23 from South Canter--1 bury i 26 • from Christchurch, and __ 4S -from Otago. Ex-champions, -who have ___rnifled their intention to compete, inJjude Lieutenant Duncan Millerton 1 (last year's champion); Colour-Sergeant i"j p. W. Ghing, Waimae; Lieutenant Ir- "';■.• Vine, Nelson; Rifleman .J. . W. Milroy. -1 Kelson; Rifleman R. J. King. Opaki; - __Ed Rifleman G. Hyde, Opaki. In addition there Will he several brilliant .:: jnarksmen -who have been absent from i' the last -two meetings. These include ] lieutenant Sandford, of Christchurch, : %ho went to Bisley in 1905, and Lieu■:"tenant A. McKenzie, •of the Queen's, : Bifles, Oamaru, who was a member of -the same t»anh ' - .'■p.The New South Wales team , arrived ihr the Warrimoo this morning. The Allien are in command of Lieutenant Dakins, secretary of the National Rifle Association of New South Wales. Capf tain Ma-bin, of the Dominion Rifle As- ' Eociation, met the vessel and extended 8 welcome to the team on behalf of his Association. Arrangements have been - made for the team to stay at the Occidental Hotel, and all the men will. be • made honorary members of the Civil] Service Club during their stay here. | The officers will .also be _aa.de honorary] ..members of the Garrison Ofacers' Club. • : Lieutenant-Colonel Hughes, chief range jjj officer, of the Dominion Rifle Association, will arrive on Friday in charge of the Wanganui Rifle Battalion, which 5 .is to take part in the forthcoming ma- * noeuvres. .He will not return to Wanganui with his troops, but after the en^ campment will proceed to Trentham in connection with the business of the Association. The Permanent Artillery, to the strength of 35 members, will go into camp on Monday, February 2S, to pitch camp . and carry out other duties; The range will be specially opened for practice from next Thursday, for the benefit of the Australians, who will be given every opportunity to 'get their eye in" for the opening day. The range -will be open for general practice from Saturday next, but. ho tent accommodation win he aviiable until next Monday at the earliest. A new system of field service telephones is being installed throughout : the ranges. These are he 1 ing erected by the .Permanent Artillery, under the supervision of Captain Duiga_, engineer staff officer, and it is thought that the new system will be a great, improvement and prove a boon to the Association and competitors 1 alike. ............. - ,