LORD JELLICOE AND SHOOTING

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 53, 4 March 1922, Page 9

LORD JELLICOE AND SHOOTING

A CHALLENGE TROPHYa

.(II lIIIORAH.—PMII ASIOCUTIOH.)

CHRISTCHURCH, 3rd March. Under date 28th February, His Excellency' wrote to the Minister of Defence (Sir Heaton Rhodes) as follows: — "I learn with regret 1, from the report of the National Rifle Association that the New Zealand units competing in the Im-. perial Challenge Shield competitfon in miniature rifle shooting for boys of the Empire did not show -results which compared well with those from other Dominions. I should like to do my best for the encouragement of New Zealand units in the future, and therefore I offer a challenge trophy for award to the unit in New Zealand, which makes the greatest all-round effort and shows the highest all-round training by entering successfully the largest number of teams, in the competitions, taking into consideration (a) the quality of the, shooting of the various teams representing Cadet corps, schools, or other units; (b) the percentage of boys that shoot in the competitions, senior or junior, or both, as compared with the total number of boys of shooting age in the Cadet corps, school, or other units. "I understand that the GovernorsGeneral of other Dominions have given a trophy under the same conditions. The trophy is now on order." On Thursday Sir Heaton Rhodes placed His Excellency's letter before a meeting of, • Cabinet in , Wellington^ Cabinet expressed' its appreciation of Lord JelKcoe's generous offer, which it considered* would, greatly stimulate _ interest in shooting among the various units affected. . ;