ARMY MARKSMEN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 62, 14 March 1930, Page 9

ARMY MARKSMEN.

QUICK-FIRE COMPETITIONS,

AND GUNS. HAWEE'S BAY: WIN- STAFFORD ; .■ , . , ■ SHIELD.-. ■' ,■ v'..v. •:J (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) TRENTHAM, this-day. : The following, are results of competitions at the Army ;Rifle Association's meeting at'Trentham:— , . Vickers Gun Matches. Stoppage . ' Competition.—4o/, * First" Battalion .Hawkers Bay Regiment (Corporals. Wv Burton, -.T. ' Rosenberg, : L. Crawford, Lance-Corporal. R. Frizzel) 1; 20/, North Auckland .'Mounted Rifles; 2? Fourteen teams; competed. , ■' Direct Fire r Order Competition,, leaders only.—4o/, .-- Sergeant 'C. 'Doel, First Battalion, Auckland-Regiment,' 1; 20/,, Sergeant F. Polhill,-East Coast Mo.unted,-:Rines,>' 2. Thirteen competed. •Vfckers '■ Gitn Aggregate, all practices.—! 50/ : . (yicker>-: challenge tropur, and-silver-spoon forTeach'-member), First Battalion Hawke's Bay Regiment, Sergeant D* Graham (leader), Corporals Burton/ , Rosenberg, Crawford, Frizzell, 319, 1; 100/ and silver spoon each, Nel-son-Marlborough Mounted Rifles, 209, 2. Lewis Gun Matches. Stoppage Competition.—4o/, First Battalion Southland Regiment (Corporals W. Graham.. A. Williamson, S. Cuttriss) L; 20/, First Battalion. Wellington West. Coast Regiment, 2. • Ten teams competed. Direct. Fire Order Competition, leaders only.—4o/, Sergeant C. Marett, First Battalion Auckland Regiment, 1; 20/, Sergeant C Breckton, Royal Marines, 2. Elevi-u competed. , Lewis Gun Aggregate, all .practices.— 120/ (Lewis Shield: and U silver spoon to each: member),- First. Battalion ■. Hawke's Bay Regiment' (Sergeant; - H. Ellis, Corporal A. Symons, Lance-Corporal J. CarHiichael, Private E. Burton) 275, 1; 80/ and silver spoon each, First Battalion Wellington West Coast: Regiment, 261, 2. Hotchkiss Gun Matches. Stoppage Competition.-—4O/, Welling ton East Coast Mounted Rifles (Corporal R. Butler, N. Bawden, L. Carberry) 1; 20/, North Auckland Mounted Panes, 2. Six teams competed. Direct Fire Order Competition, leaders only.—lo/, .Corporal R. Cliff, North Auckland Mounted Rifles, 1; 20/, Sergeant M. Orchard, Nelson-Marlborough Mounted Rifles, 2. Six competed. Hotclikiss Gun Aggregate. — 120/ (Hotchkiss challenge trophy and silver spoon each), Wellington East Coast Mounted Rifles, Sergeant N. Smith (leader), Corporals Butler, Bawden, Carberry, 184, 1; 80/ and silver spoon each, Nelson - Marlborbugh Mounted Rifles, 167, 2. ~ . ;;; . : "- '• '. The Stafford. Challenge which .was.won by the Hawke's : Bay-Regiment, with an aggregate of ■1045,"/is'a .trophy presented by the • townspeople ;;of Stafford, England, to* . the New■"." Zealand Rifle Brigade to. commemorate kindly feelings towards the New. Zealanders who were stationed; at' Broctipn camp during the'.Great-War. The competition embraces • the" grand aggregate of Vickers, Lewis guns '.rifle team jtnatches. Rurihers-up were: the AncklanS '.'Eegi-' ment, with Gfltvgointsj meffit, with- 6fTpoin£si -being thlra; ,;.■ -*