TRENTHAM RIFLE MEETING

Evening Star, Issue 14511, 1 November 1910, Page 7

TRENTHAM RIFLE MEETING

The programme for the next “ Bisley ” has been issued. The meeting will begin on Friday, March 3, and entries will close on Saturday, February 11. The sum of £I,OOO has been allocated as prizes. Tho championship series will consist of eight matches, instead of six, two of the double distance matches having been converted into four single range matches. The prizes in this series have been increased to £1,223. The Grand Aggregate Match has a prize list of £222. There are also two other aggregate lists, to which £SO each has been allotted, there being thirty prizes in each, the Trentham aggregate being for all t cores made at 500 and 600 yards, and the Bisley aggregate for all scores made at 800, 900, and 1,000 yards. In tho championship series figure targets are to bo introduced. The prize list in the Service Match scries is £3BO, the same as last.year, but a reduction has be.:i made on the entrance fees. Tho prizes for the Teams Matches, include many valuable trophiec and £154 in cash prizes. The number of men to form a team ip eix.

A diver cup of tho value of sixty guineas haa been presented by W. Gre.rg and Co., Dunedin (Coffee Club Cup), ar.d will bo awarded to the team making the highest aggregate tcore in the ecriro United Service Match, which carries with it the Dawson Shield and a each prize of £2O. There will be a competition (twenty a aide) between Territorials and rifle dub men : otherwise (hero in no distinction between three two arms of tho r/rrvice in tho programme. _ Consequent on new arrangement made in connection with the catering, it has been decided by the Council tint a entering foe of 15s per man will he charged, and must bv paid at the. timo of entry. With the ample ae-

oommodation available, Colonel Collins is proposing a now system of squadding : four men to a squad, and twenty-five squads to a section, lettered from “A” onwards. Match barrels arc prohibited. They were only allowed last year on account of many of the Australian competitor being so armed, and an an inducement for them to come. Aperture back eights will he allowed as before. A competitor will have the option of converting his ■ sighting shot into a counting shot. For the purpose of deciding ties a central of 12in at 500 and 600 yards, and 21in at longer ranges, will bo marked on tho target, counting five marks in a competition and six marks in shooting off. The usual concessions of fares on intercolonial and coastal steamers have been arranged for. Free railway passes on the New Zealand Railways from tho p 1 acc of residence to Trentham and back will also he issued.