RIFLE SHOOTING.
The Okawa Defence Rifle Club ouened the season at Roy’s Hill on Labour Day. Over 20 members rolled up and the shooting was well un to the average. The veteran shot. Arthur Hyde, once again put on the top score. The No. 1 team’s score is as follows: —
LEGION OF FRONTIERSMEN v. FARMERS’ UNION. A match took place at the above range for the handsome silver cup donated by Messrs. Daniel Crawford and Sons for competition between the Frontiersmen and Farmers’ Union Rifle teams. The FarmersUnion A team has held it for two years. Very keen friendly rivalry exists among the different teams competing and this has had the desired effect of encouraging rifle shooting in Hawke’s Bay to a very considerable extent. The cup was won bj r the Legion A team by 19 points. The following are the individual scores: —
LEGION OF FRONTIERSMEN. A Team.
The London “Chronicle” says that! everyone knows the part which Krupp’s plays in equipping Germany and her allies with munitions, but how many are aware that the money with which the great firm was placed on a sure foundation, if not actually founded, came from Birmingham ? Alfred Krupp came to Birmingham about 1840 with an introduction from Dr. Siemens to Messrs. Elkington and Mason, elec-tro-platers, the predecessors of the present firm of Elkington and Co. He opened to them a machine, which he had invented, for rolling metal “blanks” from which spoons and forks are made. Eventually he sold this to the firm for £lO,OOO. With the money thus acquired Krupp proceeded to Essen and laid the foundation of the great fortune he afterwards acquired. Private F. Gies, a trades-unionist of over twenty-five years, and who resigned his position as general secretary of the Federated. Ironworkers’ Association of Australia for the purpose of enlisting, has written a letter to Mr. A. R. Croft, at Sydney, from England, on the eve of going to the frdnt, the letter being received in Sydney yesterday. He says: “The English people idolize the Australians after Gallipoli and Pozieres and I tell you this country is worth fighting for. One feels proud to be a soldier and an Australian. There is not the industrial unrest here —the sound of the guns is too close. God help Australian industrialism should Germany win.”
26IT0UN CAMP. The N.Z. Details Camp Canteens at Zeitoun sell large quantities of Fluenzol which is greatly appreciated by the troops. especially in sultry weather. The cooling effect cl Flr.enzol is due to its wonderful fever-reducing properti.-.-. Gargle for throats, Swallow for Fevers. Sniff up for Catarrh and Colds. Everywhere 1/6 and a/6. la
300 500 600 Tl. A. Hyde 3(J 32 29 91 James 27 33 30 90 Admore 27 32 28 87 Vyner 26 26 24 76 Wellwood 20 29 25 74 Total 418
300 500 600 Tl. F Humphries . 29 28 32 89 G. Cotterill ... 29 30 28 87 J. Cowan 28 25 30 83 L. E. Brathwaite . 25 27 26 78 R V. Vallance 30 27 21 78 Total ...,. B Team. 415 A. Bockett ... 27 28 29 84 S J. Goulter . 25 26 31 82 J Goulter .... . 27 25 26 78 Hawthorn • 23 26 27 76 E K. Goulter .... . 19 25 23 67 Total FARMERS’ UNION. A Team. 387 H J. Smith ... . 25 31 26 82 T Guthrie ... . 28 31 23 82 Lyons . 28 28 23 79 W. Macfarlane . 28 27 22 77 D Maclean ... . 28 27 21 76 Total B Team. 396 Wellwood . 28 26 QS 79 Vyner . 26 26 24 76 Cotterill . 23 28 23 74 A. W. Elliott . .... . 22 26 22 70 E R. Goulter .... . 22 29 18 69 Total 368
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 265, 25 October 1916, Page 2
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