RIFLE SHOOTING.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVI, Issue 87, 29 March 1926, Page 6

RIFLE SHOOTING.

H.B. ASSOCIATION. EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING. !he Hawke’s Bav Association will conduct its annual meeting at the Coleman Range Hastings, on Saturday next and Easter Mondav. Tse programme includes: (1) Service Match, 300yds, snapshooting and rapid, 28 prizes, £l5 and a gold medal donated by Air. A. A. George to the winner; (2) Wellirgton Alatch, 3(X; yds., ten shots and two optional sighters. 24 prizes, £32; (3) Wairara, pa Alatch, 500yds., ten shots and two optional sighters, 28 prizes, £32; (4) laranaki Alatch, 600yds., ten shots and two optional sighters, 28 prizes, (5) optional aggregate (the aggregates of matches 2, 3 and 4), 20 prizes, £45 (based on 45 entries at 20s); cadet championship, open to units of all cadet companies who have qualified lor their musketry course (aggregate match 2, 3 and 4. Sights and slings optional, 6 prizes, £2 10s and Air. Kinross White’s Challenge Cup and gold medal, subject to 10 entries. entrance ss; (6) Hawke’s Bay Match, 800yds., ten shots, two optional sighters, 24 prizes. £32; (7) South Island Alatch, 900yds., ten shots and two optional sighters, 2-t prizes. £32; (8) Championship Aggregate (highest aggregate in Alatches 2, 3,4, 6, and 7) 22 prizes, £45, and the Chanipion Belt and gold medal; Championship Teams Match, 300, 500 and 60Qyds., seven shots and sighter, each range, teams of five men from cadets, territorials, rifle club or permanent staff, from any one district; entrance £1 10s per team. Ist jirize, Collins Shield (valued £2OO, to be held for a year), and 50 per cent, of the total entrance money; second prize ‘3O per cent, and third prize 20 per cent. The McFarlane Cup goes for a year to the highest aggregate score at 800 and 900 yards; the Bone Cup to the highest scorer in Alatches 2, 3 and 4; the A.A. George Challenge Cup to the territorial tyro making highest aggregate in Alatches 2, 3 and 4; the Campbell Cup to territorial tyro making highest aggregate in Matches 2,3, 4, 6 and 7; McLeod and Rivers Cup, to rifle club tyro highest aggregate in Matches 2 and 7 inclusive; A. A. George’s Rose Bowl, runner-up champion belt. (All cups and belts to be held for one year). Tlie entrance fees for matches 1,2, 3,4, 6,7, and 8 (inclusive) £4; 1 to 4 (inclusive), £2 10s; territorials up to rank of sergeant. 5s per match; optional aggregate, £l. Entries will be received by the secretary, Mr L. E. Brathwaite, P.O. Box 10, Hastings, up to. and including, Wednesday, March 31st.