COLLEGE RIFLES CLUB.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 59, 10 March 1915, Page 9

COLLEGE RIFLES CLUB.

AKNVAI, MEETTXGJ ; ■' . . ' ' ... j Th* College Rifles Clnb held its annual meeting last night, when a Jaree attendance was presided over by Lieutenant A. A. Oigruiu. _ . . In his address the chairman referred to toe number of members who were fortunate enough to be now actively serving at the. front. The Divisional Signal Company;with which the club was so closely con", nected, bad furnished a detachment .oftwenty.five men for Samoa, and a-fnHher. thirty-five men as the Auckland quota of the signallers with the main hrty: Tof the; Expeditionary Forces. As far as conld be "ascertained, the total number of members now engaged in active service was ninetyone, inctwtteg-tfae president of the clubr Major T. H. Dawson. '.".-■ Two members of the clnb had . elreaoy given their lives in tße -service of the : Empire. These were Captain Oliver Steele, who was killed--in action in the North ol : France, and Private Roy Gareide Culpan, ' who died at sea while en route to Egypt. The report and balance-sheet wer*adopted. The following officers werf elected for tne ensuing year:—Patron.. Colonel -T. E. Home: vicerpatronsv Colon'e!---0.. T. 'Major- and Mrs.-T.-H:*" t>awson>; , tpresident. Lieutenant A. A. Dignan; vice- : presidents. Major T_H. Dawson, lieutenant H. C. Cotton, Lieutenant C. D. Coolte. Colonel -J. B-- Reed, • Lleutenttpt-Colqnei: A. -&: "Plngge, Major' 3. E. Barton, Major Ij M Shera, Major F. E. Stuckey, Messrs. T. B. Clay, .W. H. Pountney, A..&: Bankart. C. J. Parr, -0.-MK5..-M.P-. 3. TC. Tibbs, S. H. Gordon, A. Beylns. VT: Coif" man, C. Nesblt, F. J. Westqn, J, H. Gunson, Hon. G. Fowlds; auditor*, , 'Messrs. T. G.. -Baskett and G. -Saunders-.;: hon. secretary, Sergeant A. C. Wilkin; hon. treasurer. Corporal N. -R. "W.". Thtimasi , committee Messrs. Weston, Baddeley, H Mays, Kent, Cox, Sloman, and Spencer. i|