KELBURNE RIFLE VOLUNTEERS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 211, 30 May 1908, Page 15

KELBURNE RIFLE VOLUNTEERS.

/ , ' The eleventh annual meeting of the Kelburno Rifles was hold in the Central Drill Shed.on Tuesday last, .there-being a strong muster of the company present. The annual report; and balance-sheet were read and adopted. Tho corps was stated to .bo in a very sound -position, the attendance of the mem- - bors at the;'ordinary 'parades,' and also ;at all special parades held-during the Ij'ear being most' 'satisfactory,; sixty -members having ■ earned the capitation grant'. , The' annual ball; of tno corps'was held dur-. ing and proved: an unqualified success,' 1 mainly.'owing to itlie.ra assis-. tanco given by a committee of ladies interested in the welfare of the corps. The following .were the prize-winners in the shooting competitions carried out during the past season: — • ' ' ' Private Hart secured three first and two ■ second prizes, and also carried-off the grand aggregate :priz©,with .al'score of 431 points.' - . Sergt. Mflcauley sccured two first prizes, and ■ - tho second prizo in the aggregate competi-, , tion,winning ox-Lieut. Jones's - trophy. ' ' Other prize-winners wereSergt. Colo, Cor-'/ porais Muriroe: and Collcy, Privates, Petti--' gre\r,'.'Mitdi^l//a9d'ißafcDei^V In the cher won tljfe.. aggregate prize 'with a total ' : of-60 points/4-Corporals;Muhroe" and Taylor; and Privates.Butcher'and Hov?lands also won prizM.-\l!' .5 . ; i Trophies-fdr the ensuing yeai; wero kindly \ presented .'by.. the. -followinggentlemen Messrs.;? Sargood, Son and :. Ewen,-, Bing ■ Harris and Co., iand Ross .and Glondiriing. The following promotions took-effect during the year:—Corporal Cole.to be Sergeant vice Sergeant Butcher resigned;. Lce.-Corpoval ' Munroe. to, be' Corporal vice ' Corporal. Cole > . promoted.- •