RIFLE SHOOTING.
•— ; — THE TRENTHAM MEETING. > (press association* telegrams.) WELLINGTON, October 11. The draft programme of the Trentham Rifle Meeting ie now ready, ami will be published ea soon es approved of. The Champion prise with the Belt hie been increased to £50. A special match for Rifle Clubmen, to be fired simultaneously with the Volunteer Match, has been added to the programme, but otherwise it is on the semo lines as lest year. If a team is required for Bisley & spec hi series of matchee will be fired to decide its personnel. Competitors will be permitted, to use the new wind gauge elide as provided by the Imperial War Office end used at last Bisley meeting. The Government he* cabled for a supply. The pull of the trigger can be reduced to five instead of cix pounds. Some alteration will be made in the targets at 200 and 300 yards. They will bo 4ft by 4ft. The bull's-eye will be 6in, the inner loin, and the magpie 24in. The inner will be divided from the bull's-eye by a faint white line not visible to tuo firer. The range is in excellent order, many improvements hiving been effected daring the recess. The firing mounds have been levelled tnd sown in grew, and where this could not be done new turf has been laid.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12933, 12 October 1907, Page 3
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