CHAMPION SHOT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 64, 17 March 1910, Page 3

CHAMPION SHOT.

_ G. HALLIDAY BONXH3KED. SVOODVILLE'S' PROWESS.. Rifleman George Hajliday, this year** champion rifle shot of ..New Zealand spent a part of his early career 'in Wood■ville, and last evening a number of exresidents of Woodville assembled in the Occidental Hotel to congratulate the champion. Captain G. J. Hall, who presidad, refe-.Ted to the years passed by Mr. HaUiday in .Woodville, where he had learnt to shoot. His success had beea due to const-ant work and application both to the theory and practice' of rifle shooting. Woodville was noted for its splendid marksmen. It was a Woodville team, containing such men as Chicken, Loveday, 'and Ingpen, that put up faiich a score at the Hillsborough range, O^maru, a score never equalled in New /Zealand, and only once in the. world — by a. Natal team at Bisley. Woodville, too, had perhaps the basfc cadet team in New Zealand, winning the Weekly Pi ess Challenge Shield twica in succession. Other speakers offered their congratulations to the champion, who replied briefly, thanking them for their kindly, remarks. He accounted for his success on the final day in the fact that he was not one of the leaders, for the leading position was always a handicap. Though, he had started in Woodville, he had learrtt practically all his shooting with the Karori Club, of which he was one of tlie oldest members. At the same tima he had picked up many valuable points from the old maik&men of Woodville, which had turned out sonic cf tho be^ r shots in the Dominion. ,