RIFLE SHOOTING.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13342, 6 February 1909, Page 10

RIFLE SHOOTING.

The members of tho Liuwood Rifles' Ladies' Miniature Rifle Shooting Club fired the ninth and tiina-l shoot of a series of nine competitions on Thursday evening. Tho conditions were tha*. the of the frvni highest stores fhould csiin: fir prize?. Prizes were -iveTi for tho two highest a-gregates off the nfie and prizes for the four aggregates with handicaps, no lady to take morn than o:ie prize. The ehootiiiß throughout was of a very high order The first prize off the rifle was won I>y Miss M. Walter, who made -2.1G out of 215, Wing closely followed by Mrs Tiini.rcll with 214. The next in order were Miss Fraser 2.V., Miss H. Vernall nnd Mrs Fraser '.:)2 each. The prizes for scores with handicaps were won by Miss Vernall 211. Mi«s Wr»n and Miss Williamson 24:t e.ieh. nnd Kiss Franer 2125. the next in order being illss 51. Waiter 241 J. and Mrs Fraser 211 The followinir is the result, c.f tho ninth competition:—Miss B. Vernal 33 (score) H (handicap). ."15 (total). Mine Joe, 3.T 2 "35 r Miss Wren. :U, 1. 33: Mi*s Williamson 33 .1. 3.5; Miss Shanks, iO, fi. 35; MUs I,im'l«av' Xi, lj. 314 ; Mrs Fraser. 33. 1. 31; Mrs Jones 31, 3. 34: Miss Collins. 31. 3. 34; Mrs Tim:.rell. 33, h. 33*: Miss E. Walter 31 * 33Mrs Beardsley. 28, 4J, :12J ; Mips Wri"nt 28 3, r.l ; Mrs Phillips. 20. U, 30}; M'ss>ra«er' 20, I, 30; Miss O. Kflnc, 28, '2 30- Mi i Vernall. -20. 2J. 28$; Miss M. Walter "7 '<■ 27J; Miss Timbrell, 24, 2, 20. ' "' " (PIIESS ASSOCIATION TEMCGRAM.) WAIMATK, February 5. The Waimate Rifles, shooting for the' South Canterbury Battalion Shield here on Thursday, put up n score for a team of twelve men that probably constitutes a record for the Dominion, if not for Australasia. Tho ranges were 200, 500, and COO yards. The maximum obtainable, was 105. ' Four men scored a hundred or over, nnd the average for the team was almost 97. the total points being 1160. The. Timaru Port Guards who had held the shield for two years, were beat»i by 103 points, though they stood next highest ainoug the five teams competing.