RIFLE SHOOTING

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 March 1933, Page 11

RIFLE SHOOTING

N.R.A. MEETING RESULTS.

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

TRENTHAM, March 9

The annual matches for the King’s Prize were advanced a further stage at Trentham to-day when the National Rifle Association disposed of three single range matches and one double range match. As the result of the matches already completed in the Championship series, H. Simonds (Auckland) and E. S. King (Wanganui) are leading for the King’s, each having an aggregate of 336. Simonds and King have each won the Champion Belt, the former in 1924, and the latter in 1928. The competitors moved back to the 500 yards mark for the first range of the Wellington Match. Here five possibles were recorded, the marksmen to put their ten shots into the bullseye being R. C. Hamilton (Wanganui), S. Mayhew (Cheltenham), A. R. Willis (Invercargill), H. K. Smith' (Opaki) and Sim (Okara). At the second range of 600 yards, the scoring was generally lower. The winner of the match was W. H. Ballinger (Petone), who scored 98, having done 49 at each range. F. Bowes (Auckland) was run-ner-up with 96. In the Hawke’s Bay Match (ten rounds at 600 yards) Nix repeated his morning performance, again winning with the possible. F. H. James, of Napier, was second with 49. Four possibles were made in one range of the Taranaki Match, which called for ten rounds at 800 yards. V. Dunn (Upper Hutt) was the first to finish with all his shots bullseyes, and he was quickly followed by R. C. Barkle (Petone), R. F. Wakefield (Auckland), and W. Sheriff (Gisborne).

The Trentham aggregate for the highest aggregate scores in the King and Henry Match, Canterbury Match, Hawke’s Bay Match and Wellington Match went to E. S. King (Wanganui) with an aggregate of 289.

AUCKLAND MATCH.

TRENTHAM, March 10.

The annual matches for the King’s Prize continued at Trentham to-day in fine -weather.

Auckland match, ten rounds at 800 and 900 yards was fired during the morning, the winner being F. Bowes (Auckland) with a score of 98.