25 YEARS AGO
Roots Rifle Champion (From “The Dominion," March 10, 1911.) Yesterday the illustrious fifty who had earned the privilege and distinction of contesting the rifle ehampionship of New Zealand went down on the 1009 yards mound on the Sommerville range at Trentham, and settled the business Rifleman D. Roots, who headed the fifty at the commencement of the match, finished first after a sharp struggle with the runnerup (Henderson, of the Sounds) Rifleman Roots made 486 —three( points more than did Halliday, the winner of the previous year, and one point ahead of Henderson. The Wellington City Council’s health committee hopes soon to he able to select a site for a milk depot, and take other steps to ’ bring the milk supply scheme into operation. A large deputation waited on the Wellington City Council last night to urge the claims of the Constable Street-Kil-birnie tramway connection.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 139, 7 March 1936, Page 8
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14825 YEARS AGO Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 139, 7 March 1936, Page 8
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