C. J. NIX

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 58, 10 March 1937, Page 13

C. J. NIX

C. J. Nix, of Tauherenikau, is a member of the Featherston Rifle Club, and has taken part in every National Rifle Association meeting held since 1908. He is a sheepfarmer by profession and is 49 years of age. He has a long record of successes in club shooting and has been included in the Final Fifty at every national meeting since

the break during the War years. Al-. though the present meeting was the first occasion when he reached second place in the Final Fifty, he was run-ner-up to W. Mclver, of the Petone Rifle Club in the final in 1931, finished third in 1933. and has been in fifth place on two occasions. In 1931 he ■won the Wairarapa championship, the North Island Championship, and the South Island Championship, and he has-won his club championship so frequently that his club mates consider ''that it belongs to him." He is also a good miniature rifle shot and has won the championship of the Featherston Miniature , Rifle Club. > For the long ranges Nix uses a long Martini- ■ Henry barrel, purchased from military stock for £1, and, although these barrels were manufactured prior to 1895, he claims that the one he uses is better finished and as accurate as more modern and more expensive barrels. Nix was a member of the New Zealand team that went to Australia in 1929, that being the only occasion that he has taken his rifle out of the Dominion. He is a very popular member of his club and is also a great favourite on the range with . marksmen from all over New Zealand.