CHAMPION AND RUNNER-UP
I This year's champion, George Halliday, is a yoiing man of thirty-live years of ago. lie has occupied a prominent place in rifle shooting for several years, ami has received prizes at most of the Association meetings he has attended. Last year he was selected to represent New Zealand in the Empire Match at the jubilee meeting of the National Rifle .Association of New .South Wales, and was the highest scorer. Halliday is a member of the Karori Rifle Club, in the competitions of which he has shot with marked success for several years, more than, once securing the championship. Halliday is the first Trenthamtrained rifleman to win the belt. Captain W. S. King, the runner-up, has been shooting at Rifle Association meetings for nearly twenty years, and has secured some of the most prominent prizes. As Bandmaster King he secured the championship at Wangauui in 1899, and wont very close to it in 1901. Last year ho fired well up to the final stage, at which he was leading, but, meeting with bad luck, only succeeded in getting sixth place. He has twice represented New Zealand at Bisley, and has_ received several valuable prizes on the historic rifle ground. King has also represented New Zealand in Australia several times, and was a member of tho Empire team of 1909.
CHAMPION AND RUNNER-UP
Evening Star, Issue 14314, 12 March 1910, Page 5
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