RIFLE CHAMPIONSHIPS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 59, 11 March 1926, Page 9

RIFLE CHAMPIONSHIPS.

NIGHT FIRING CONTESTS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) TRENTHAIT, this day. When the targets used in the night firing competition were checked, the detailed results were found to be :— Lewis Gun and Rifle Teams.-—lst Battalion, Otago Regiment, 41 points, £8, 1 : Ist Battalion, Wellington Regiment, 40 points, £6, 2; New Zealand Division Royai Xavy, 36 points, £4, 'A; Ist Battalion, Hawke's Bay Regiment. 33 points, £2, 4. Thirteen teams competed. Hotchkiss (iun and Rifle Teams. —Gth Mounted Rifles (Manawatu), 22 points, £S, 1; Ist Mounted Rifles (Christchurch), 20 points, £+, 2; Bth Mounted Itifles (Marlborough), 20 points, £4, 3. Further machine gun matches and battle practice competitions will occupy to-day. CADETS' BATTLE PRACTICE. TEAMS MATCHES. The Regimen-tnl Teams rifle match, for teams of eight, resulted:—Permanent Force (Central Depot), 632 points. £16, 1: Ist Battalion Wellington Regiment, «" ; 5 points, £12, 2: Xew Zealand Naval Division, 590 points, £10, 3: Ist Battalion Aueklanrt Regiment, 587 points, £8. 4; Ist Waikato Regiment, 36S points, £6, o: Permanent ■Staff (Southern) 559 points, £4, 6. Tnentyfour teams competed. The Vickers machine gun fire, with movement, 600 to 300 yards, was won by the Bth Mounted ttifles-(-Maryborough), with 01 points, the Ist Mounted Rifles (Christchurch) being runners-up, with 74.