THE TRENTHAM RIFLE MEETING.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 138, 5 March 1908, Page 8

THE TRENTHAM RIFLE MEETING.

' FINAL ARRANGEMENTS. ;; , (BY- TELEGRAMI—SPECMIrCOIIRESrONDENT.) . • Trantham, Mareli'4'.' Up to tho presentthere "are. ovor /SCO entries, for tho/.various. ovcnts .on tho programme for tho .'New.'. Zealand'Riflo Association, which, commences to-morrow r- morning, kvorythmg points to a most successful meeting, tho one uncertainty lioirigjthe. weather, althpugh .tho .southerly wmtl Which'.'came "up yesterday may .improve, .'.matters. .• Riflemen aro unanimous in.. their praise 'of'"the . organisation of tho eamp. Th'o nien's messroom lias booh .transformed; yaiid ,'wh'at I 'was 'formerly an inhospitable-looking 'barii.-is v now a comfortable and commodious room. A featu.ro of the commissariat is-the, additioji of a butcher's 'shop,'cool:and- 'exceptionally tidy,-a marked unproyemeht froni thd/somewhat ' primitivo ' arrangemcrits ' of. former years. Th e whole,:.reflects .'great .credit "on, the executive staff.. .

- A-meeting of tho, executivo was-held last ovoning, when the final arrangements for the opening of the meeting wcro discussed. .As .has already been stated, .the system of single .man targots is to be tried, and. -if successful, will be carried out.. At .the South". Island -meeting held . at Redcliffs range, Uiristalrarch, last. week,-: the experiment proved very successful. . .Somo chagrin; was'.'felt iby thoso riflemen who journeyed to Trelitham by tho 4.7 p;m. i, ralh n y c ® t , orda r- It had been announced in tlie omcial arrangements that, all'trains, with tho excoption of tho express? would- stop "at tho defence siding, and the men naturally inwlr exception applied to tho S Ollington : Napier mail train., „ They " were t ieroforo considerably, annoyed to find tliat they were carried on, to .Walla'c'eyille station. , Among the visiting, riflemen, are Sergeants M Calley and Edwards, of New:Soutli Walea.' Sergeant M'Calley holds the West- Australian championship, and Sergeant: Edwards took part m' tho Empiro rifle match held-"at bydnoy recently- being , a member of the Australian-'team: '- 1

n ™o otabl ° . al)sen tces:. as marksmen at the 19® me'eting are the , brothers' Ballinger (Arthur' and William), ch'aitijiictos Ton many. a , and whose names' are hcusohold "words in ,tho New. Zoalandvhistoix : p|imo {shobting. It is' about! twenty-seven yeafe ago "since 'the Batlmgers. fired their first shots at a championship meeting, and up'ta tTi'e present time they have never missed a •gathering. ,