NGATIAWA RIFLE CLUB.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 769, 18 March 1910, Page 6

NGATIAWA RIFLE CLUB.

, : ANNUAL MEETING. '... '."". The annnal meeting of the Ngatiawa Rifle Club was hold in the Reitorangi Schoolroom on Wednesday evening. The report'stated that on the whole tie club had had a...vary, successful • season, and had succeeded in raising its status from a fourth-rate power to a first-rate power. A team ■of • ten men was sent to Palmerston North to compete for the Field Shield, and in this they put up a very creditable performance by gaining third place out of five teams, being only 9 points behind the winners. A : team of eight men went to Levin to fife, a match against the Levin Rifle Club, for the Fresh Food and Ice .Company Cup, but in this they were'beaten by 29 points. Two friendly matches were fired, one against Whareroa 1 Kifle Club, which was lost, and one against the Wellington Navals, which was won, thus registering the club's first win. .• Several. members competed at the. recent championship meeting at Trentham, with more or less success, one member, Rifleman H. Field, winning the Kynock Cup. During, the year, a championship belt was procured out of the proceeds of a social and voluntary subscriptions, and this was competed for, the' winner, being Rifleman F. H. Monk. All club competitions, however, are not yet completed. The balance-sheet showed receipts totalling .£ls 'ss. 2dJ, and expenditure .£8 17s. Gd., leaving a balance of £6 7s. Bd, which is satisfactory, considering the club is only two years old. The construction of long range mounds and improvements to targets and butts have greatly increased the expenditure, but the club, looks'forward to having an easy time during the,coming season as regards expenses. .-The adoption of the report and bmlanco-sheet was agreed to.

Officers were elected as under:—Patron, Mr. H. R. Elder; president, Mr. A. Monk; secretary and treasurer, Mr. A. Clifton, and Mr. W. D. Bennett; auditor, Mr. Short; General Committee, the Presides*, Messrs. G. A. Monk, F. H. Monk, ■T. F. Monk,-S. Connor, G. Carter, E. Stubbings, J. Stubbings, A. Clifton, and W. D. Bennett; Selection and Executive Committee, the-President, Messrs. S. Connor, and W. D. Bennett; haudicapper, Mr. W. D. Bennett. The annual subscription was fixed at 7s. 6d., and, it was decided to make various improvements on the butts. It was suggested that competitions be finished before the annual meeting. In order lo do this the committee recommended that-a programme bo drawn up by the Executive Committee as soon as possible after the annual meeting. This it was pointed out, would enable competitions for any particular trophy to bo well spread out through the season instead of having two or three in a heap.