EMPIRE RIFLE MATCH

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 249, 15 July 1920, Page 7

EMPIRE RIFLE MATCH

TO BE FIRED IN MELBOURNE. Colonel R. J.' Collins is not allowing the grass to grow under his feet in connection with .New Zealand's representation in the Empire Riiie Match, to be fired at Melbourno in November. Great Britain is sending out a team of eight men to defend the shield at present held at Home, and it is hoped that teams from Canada and South Africa will compete. Colonel Collins has secured data as to the cost of sending a team of Kevr Zealanders across, and hopes that the Government will help along the project. Speaking to a Dominion reporter yesterday, he said that a big international rifle match had been arranged at Home, 'presumably with, the co-operation of our : Allies 111 the recent war. This match ■ would be fired on Home ranges wia servico rifles next month. That arrangement wasl quite, all right in those countries north of the equator, but no riilefanng took place in New Zealand in August owing to the winter weather and poor light. Colonel Collins would very much like to see New Zealand participate in tins shoot, and may ask that New Zealand be given the status of a nation and permission to compete in ; uL "ternational" during the New Zealand Kifle Association's meeting in Feb- «