GISBORNE PLACED THIRD IN RIFLE TEAMS’ MATCH
(P.A.) TRENTIIAM. Feb. 11. Upper Hutt with an aggregate of 484 won the champion teams’ match, the first event on the final day of the national rifle meeting on the Trentham range today. The match consisted of seven shots — 300, 500 and GOO yards—for teams of five men.
The next best scores were:—Westport 480, Gisborne 476, Okawa No. 2 475, Okawa No. 1 473, Opaki No. 1 473, Invercargill 470, Auckland 470. This match will be followed by the Service Fifty shoot-off and the King’s Fifty shoot-off. The light is good and the wind variable but not difficult. Aggregate and other results are:— Grand Aggregate.—£lo, S. Kanaar (Australia) 791; £B, R. Barrow (Cheltenham) 784; £5, F. J. Jeune (Gisborne) 781; £4, P, Martel (Opaki), J. Tansley (Invercargill), 779. Australian Aggregate.—£lo, G. A. Nicholl (Sydenham) 236; £B, W. Oakley (Christchurch) 232; £5, S. Kanaar (Australia) 232; £4, G. E. Watts (R.A.F.), D. J. Flynn (Featherston) 231. B Grade Aggregate.—£2o, M. Gregory (Upper Hutt) 459; £lO, P. W. Maurice (Ashhurst) 458; £5. M. L. R. Win (Petone) 458; £4, G. Rhodes (Featherston) 454; £3, S. S. Dyason (Ngaere) 453, G. F. Jeune (Gisborne) 452, A. C. Cammock (Waipukurau) 449. Bisley Aggregate.—£lo, H. C. Percy (Alfredton) 186; £B, S. Kanaar (Australia) 185; £5, R. Barrow (Cheltenham) 185; £4, I. Sutherland (Opaki) 184, M. H. Judkins (Auckland) 183; £3. G. A. Nicholl (Sydenham), C. J. Nix (Featherston) 183, J. I. King (Karori), 182. A later message says that I. H. MacDonald (Alfredton), the previous leader won the final shoot for the service championship with 45 and an aggregate of 277. S. Kanaar (Australia) with a brilliant 49 jumped into second place with an aggregate of 273. The next highest scores were;— W. J. Burton (Gisborne), R. Barrow (Cheltenham) 271, G. P. Crimp (Christchurch), B. Elliot (Gisborne), 270, F Bowes (Auckland), H. King (Opaki), R. H. Nicholl (Petone), 269, P. Martel (Opaki) 267, J. Tansley (Invercargill) D. J. Flynn (Featherston) 266.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22869, 12 February 1949, Page 6
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