SECONDARY SCHOOLS' SHOOTING COMPETITION.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 50, 22 November 1907, Page 8

SECONDARY SCHOOLS' SHOOTING COMPETITION.

The annual shooting competition for the secondary schools of iNew Zealand will tako place during tho latter part of the current month. The Wellington schools eligible for tho competition • are tho Wellington College and St. Patrick's College. Tho former competes, annually, but so tar St Patrick's Collogo has not been represented. The match is open to one team of ten bona-fido pupils from each secondary school. Tho conditions aro seven shots, and one compulsory sighter, at 200 and 500 yards. Target registers are to bo forwarded- to the hon. secretary,-Captain R.-A. M'Cullough, Otngo Boys' High School, not later than December 5. Tho previous winners of the competition aro as follow:— Pts. ♦1903—Otago Boys' High School ... 605 '1904—Wanganui Collegiate-School... 672 1905—Wellington College 630 1906-Wollington Collego 771 * Class-firing targets wcro used in 1903 and 1904. ■ Tho presont conditions specify Bisley targets, with a 6-inch bull.

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