RIFLE RECORDS EXTRAORDINARY.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 94, 18 October 1909, Page 2

RIFLE RECORDS EXTRAORDINARY.

« Sometimes great events are attended by very little fuss. Some New Zealanders may have already forgotten that at the Trentham Rifle Meeting in 1909, marksmen of New Zealand beat the world. In view of so much talk about defence, that is a very interesting fact. There were no fewer than 245 possibles. Two world's records and one New -Zealand record were broken. It was a perfectly astonishing performance throughout. Results achieved at Bisley with the famous Palma .303 cartridge were eclipsed. To this day the records of the great Trentham meeting remain unbroken. And yet the New Zealand marksmen were not using Palma cartridges. They were using the now famous .303 Mark VI. Military Regulation | Cartridges, manufactured in tne Doi minion by the Colonial Ammunition 1 Company. Nearly 150,000 rounds were fired, and the Executive Officer of the N.Z. Rifle Association reported that ! there had not been a single complaint. Note : 150,000 New Zealand cartridges', and not one defective ! All this counts as a veritable nnd striking triumph for a flourishing New Zealand industry. Any one acquainted with the trinkiness of ordinary ammunition and the circumstances of great rifle meetings knows that it is a marvellous thing to have no duffer among 150.000 cartridges. Here, then, is prool positive that New Zealand can not cnly hold her own in the industrial field ; but upon occasion she can beat the most famous of her rivals in the Old World. — Advt.