A VALUABLE TROPHY.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24, 30 January 1911, Page 10

A VALUABLE TROPHY.

A shield for competition by the New Zealand Defence Rifle Clubs .has been ' offered by Mr. Whitney, managing director of the Colonial "Ammunition Company, through Mr. W. H. Field, M.P. The shield is now on view in the window of Mr. F. Grady, Willis-street, by whom it was manufactured. The Trentham hills and spurs appear on the shield in raised silver, carefully reproduced from, a photograph. In the foreground there is to be seen a beautiful Now Zealand tree fern and a large cabbage palm on a platform, on which is also a tent, targets, and a rifleman with his rifle. Round_ the edge of the wooden base of the shield are a number of small silver shields to contain the names of the winners. Between these, in silver, are somo New Zealand leaves and berries. The whole makes an effect exceedingly beautiful. The shield, by arrangement with the Dominion Rifle Association, will be competed for at the annual championship meeting. The trustees are Colonel R. J. Collins, 1.5.0., V.D., Captain J. O'Sullivan, and President H. Marshall, of the Karori Rifle Club. The coinpeti.tion for this shield will undoubtedly enhance the interest of all rifls clubmen in the annual meeting at Trentham. The conditions are such as to impose a thorough test of marksmanship, and include 100 shots lor each man over all ranges. Requested by Mr. Whitney, President Marshall has drawn up tho following conditions:— To be fired for at Trentham at the Dominion Rifle Association meeting annually, and under Dominion RiSe Association rules; open to New Zealand defence rifle clubs only; members of team 3 must bo bona lido s^orn-in members of defence rifle clubs; five men to each team ; names of members of teams must be handed to the secretary of. D.R.A. meeting before the first shot for* the belt is fired; one club may enter one or more teams; shield to be won twice in succession, or three times at intervals, before becoming the property of any club; scores made in all matches for the New Zealand championship, that are open to all, to count; entrance, 5s per team; each member ot winning team to get a small silver memento from the entrance money ; highest scorer, whether "in a winning or a losing team, to receive a .303 pencil presented by tho Colonial Ammunition Company.