DEFENCE FORCES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 98, 18 January 1908, Page 6

DEFENCE FORCES.

On Wednesday next, January . 22,'j; tlie firing for the Government prize money will tuko place. Full particulars regarding the 1 programme havo already... been published. Altogether, .120 entries, have been received for the various' ovents.- The chief range officer for the day is Captain C. Harconrt Turner, who -will; be ■ assisted .by ■ .Captain: Esson, Captain W. V. Smith, and Lieutenant .Willis. Lieutenant Iloaclio will act as : secretary. •Tho ranges for to-morrow's shooting at Ircntham are :• Collins 200 and 500 yards; Sommcrville Rangb; 000--> and ! 600 yards. ( .It is intended; in- future to,, publish in our Saturday Defence Notes, the ranges, and also the-'allotted targets for that day. A meeting of the New Zealand Defence Council was ' held on Wednesday evening. Hie'.'business- transacted was entirely of rputino naturo, consideration being f given -to questions ■of "salaries, appointments; applica-. tidiis, and transfers. Tlio letter-carriers of, Wellington' have !prcsontbd tlie Post and ,Telegraph-.Billes'with a trophy < for competition among the signallers of ' the, corps'. /The presentation-is indicative •if--the: loyal feeling ■ the,distribution' branch litis for'the--.": Department's'. Own. 11 ; • .Somo-days.. ago a,paragraph appeared .in The':. Dosuniok; to the; effect . that- certain branded "-fi.8.," had proved .unsatisfactory, .iriainy- of thp cartridges being'' defective:." Our attention" has since ucon-'-datlcd;'; to''! tlie. follptrlngl paragraph, lir.dpr I ■' the'- heading "Forbidden .Ammunition," iwh'ich.'' appears in a recent issue of the 5 Broad Arrow," ' the well-known; British Scrrice gazette" Orders' have been givqn fi-om:rtbo W#r -"Office' that- .303' ball ammunition:, marked ' G./8., ,1904,'- is-not to be! Vised as- practice,', .arid; returns are to be' made showing tho .Quantity of this . ammunition possessed .by units." • j\Tr.' Arthur Ballinger. who' won the New Zealand Rifle Chainpionship Belt-outright at last year's meeting, has generously presented tho. belt to the. Now Zealand. Dcfenco Forces Rifle Association. ■ Tlie; belt will hencoforward be known as tho BaniugeriNew. Zealand Rifle Champifln Belt,;to.bd competed, for annuAlly, fold' to 'be hold'.-by.' t.h'o' winner .for .-onb year cMilyi' The "conditions. 1 of . competition are those. iyhich govern tho Association's meeting.'.