PRIZE CEREMONY
SPEECHES BY PREMIER AND HON. R. H. RHODES. A WORD ABOUT DEFENCE. As soon as the match was completed Rifleman James was placed in the champion's chair, and carried by his clubmates to the platform provided for the prize,-giving ceremony. In addition to the Prime Minister and Mrs. Massey, Hon. B. H. Rhodes (Acting-Minister of Defence), Mr. G. Sykes and Dr. Newman, M.P.'s, and Colonel Heard (Director of Military Operations and Intelligence), were also present. Colonel Collins expressed pleasure at* tho fact that the Prime Minister was present. That was, he said, the first occasion on which Mr. Massey had attended a meeting of the association, and he had no doubt that he had come to the conclusion that the Government of New Zealand had a very valuable asset it? the Trentham rifle range. It could not be denied that the range was one of the finest in the Southern Hemisphere. . He had personally visited those in Australia, and could say that none of them could come up to Trentham. The meeting had been 3 very sati&fac
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 57, 8 March 1913, Page 9
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179PRIZE CEREMONY Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 57, 8 March 1913, Page 9
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