RIFLE SHOOTING.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13374, 16 March 1909, Page 8

RIFLE SHOOTING.

EMPIRE RIFLE MATCH. '<! (tPECIAL TO "THE TBESS.") ~ , WELLINGTON, March 15. j It is intended to hold a special mee&NT ing of the New Zealand Rifle Associv ,, tion in November next at Treuthaiu, '- to take tho place of the meeting th». to bo held in Mnrch of next year. Tlft'-'----decision is subject to the Government,' approving it, and agreeing to give V' , monetary subsidy ol greater amount' than it gives to the ordinary annual;, meetings of the Association. In October next the .Empire to bo fired at Sydney, and it i> to ™fe?', stood that Great Britain,. tralia, New Zealand, autl possibly parts of the Empire will be represent^"'f-C i'l it. If a meeting were held la Zealand soon afterwards, tne attcUi>' dance of all these teams could be ex»,»ji peered with good reason. . V,? The Association's executive is oist; opinion that tho gathering in Nsw land of such an aggregation of class shots would have a marked in improving the quality ot and be of further help in the pursuit of rifle shooting awongrtjTf the masses, as well as helping to into closer touch the people of thejjv widoly separated countries forming ttJk," British kimpire. The proposal, idles],** it was first mooted last year, was fv-.' , .' vourably received in ehootins circlet^Vj' On Saturday, afternoon ' Ibo LytleltoAsii No-vile fired the last of a teries of eomietySv-j tions for «. trc.phy presented to th© coniptoy l ' t ' by Mr W. Henstonc, an oi-iuemb*r cempwny. The oocditiO'K'S wrro fi\» eoraßflft»s3\' tions ait. 200ydii, 600yda, 600 yds, the bh* 4 -« thic« ehoote to count. After a keen -co*> test Q.M.S. camo cut en top. followirr? tie best toore*, with band* '- caps added on:— ■«$ let 2nd 3rd <• $f Hep. Conipoiiiumß~ XL' Q.M.S. Sowden .. ecr 83 85 90 S3 £' Gunner Huston .. 18 84 M » Gunner "Vvyatt ..23 84 B3 84 Gunner Car-en ..18 80 63 84 MT-ii C.unnor Graham .. G 81 77 64 WJX Gunner McCormack 25 80 84 gl 9tf 1* Ilandicop limit 81. "* The Linwood Rifles' Lad:««' Mini»t«jr»3j; Hi3o Club htld their usual wcelily praelttJ i.' en Thur£doy niffht, Miss Joe m«JtUM? eoore (35). The followinir were the eeoM»Ji£|js Mice Joo 33. M3«s Thnbrell 34, Mia "fife AValler 33, Miss. E. Walter 33, Mrs 32 Mi«e Vc-mall 32. Mies O'KiUie 32. B Vernall 31, Miss WiigM, 31, Miss iii>s 30. - *-•