RIFLE SHOOTING

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 79, 30 September 1924, Page 8

RIFLE SHOOTING

IMPERIAL CHALLENGE SHIELD

WIN FOR NEW PLYMOUTH . TECHNICAL CADETS. , The New Plymouth Technical College Cadets have won the trophy presented by His Excellency the Governor-General for competition by the units participating in the Imperial Challenge Shield rifle shooting competition. The detailed scores are as follow:— Winner of the Governor-General's Trophy.—No. 89 Company, New Plymouth Technical College Cadets; score 88.9. Unit with highest score in the Imperial Challenge Shield (senior) competition.—No. 89 Company, New Plymouth lechmcal Collie Cadets; score 88.9. Unit with highest score in the Imperial Challenge Shield (junior) competition.—"A" Company, 2nd (Cadet) Battalion, bouthland Regiment, Gore High bchool Cadets; score 58.1. _ Units that did well in the competition for His Excellency the GovernorGeneral s trophy :-No. 115 Company, £?°n S C°llege Cadets (Wellington); score 62.9. No. 56 Company, Ist (C) Battalion, Isorth Auckland Regiment (Whanfrf ci);^ SCv re 58- 2" "A" Company, 2nd (O) Battalion, Southland Regiment (Gore High School); score 58.1. "A" Company, sth (C) Battalian, Canterbury £ Rglmen,fc (New Brighton); score 57.3. No._ 47 Company, Ist (C) Battalion, Haura'«.Regiment (Rotorua); score 56.7. Ihe following teams qualified for money prizes in the Imperial Challenge bnields competitions :—No; 3 Platoon, New Plymouth Technical College Cadets score 91.4; No. 1 Platoon, Nelson College Cadets, score 90.6; No. 1 Platoon, New Plymouth Technical College Cadets score 89.0; No. 1 Platoon,' New Plymouth Boys' High School Cadets, score 88.8; No. 1 Platoon, "B" Company, 4th (C) Battalion, Otago Regi- 1 ment (Dunedin), score 85.3; No. 2 Platoon,- New' Plymouth Technical College Cadets, score 84.3; No. 7 Platoon, St. Andrew's College Cadets (Christchurch) score 83.6; No. 1 Platoon, Christchurch ' Boys . High School Cadets, score 82.6. j The winners of the senior and junior ' shields will not be known until the scores of the best units in each Dominion and the Mother Country have been received and compared by the Nationil Rifle Association of Great Britain. The New Plymouth Technical Colleee Cadets, who won the Governor-General'3 trophy this year, were second in the competition last year, being beaten by a narrow margin by the New Plymouth Boys' High School Cadets. Owing to the more exacting conditions of the competition this year there has been a drop in tho number of competitors from New Zealand. Last year some 4300 cadets took part in the competition, as against 3634 this year. ]