RIFLE SHOOTING.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 11 March 1927, Page 9

RIFLE SHOOTING.

KING’S MEDAL ALLOTTED. , AIR FORCE LIEUTENANT THE WINNER. HAWERA COMPETITOR. WELL UP. (by telegraph—press association.; TEEN'THAM, March 11. The King’is Medal match prike list is as follows : . „ Petty Officer Griffiths (H.M.S. Renown), 150pt5,.£6. Sergeant- Howard (H.M.S. Domede), 145pts., £4, Lieut. Denton (Air Force, Christchurch). 145pts., King’s Medal, and £3. , Petty Officer Clack (H.M.S. Renown) 140pts; £2. Capt. G. H. Weir (Hawera) 138, Lieut. Cantv (Wellington) 138, Lieut. Cavaer (Dunedin) 138. Telegraphist.Tindall (H.M.S, Diomede) 135, Lamce-Cpl. Parker (Petohe) 132. each £l. Twenty others, with scores down to 123, took ,10s each. Lieut. Denton’, the King’s Medallist, lias been a member of the permanent staff since the inception, of the territorial scheme, and has spent five yeaTs on active service, .three with mounted troops in Palestine, and two with the Air Force at the same theatre. He is now attached to the' Soclcburn Aerodrome, and has been shooting ;at the New Zealand meetings since 1913. Last year was his first Army meeting, when he came seventh in the King’s Medal match. NIGHT FIRING COMPETITION. For gun teams (positions of guns amd targets noted before- sunset and firing talcing place after dark) 'at 800yds. 4th Mounted Ritles (Waikato), 47 points. £7 10s 1 2nd' Mounted Rifles (Taranaki) 31 points. £6 2 Ist Battalion Wellington West Coast Regt., 27 ooiin.ts, £5 «... 3 H.M.S. Dio metre, 14 points, £3 10s 4 Fifteen teams competed.