A BOY SHOOTIST.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 10 April 1908, Page 5

A BOY SHOOTIST.

[PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

AUCKLAND, April 9. The Mayor of Auckland has received a letter from Major J. Robb, of No. 1 Battalion of the school cadets (Onehunga), in which reference is made to the invitation from Lord Roberts to Sergeant Freer, t of the Onehunga District High School, to visit England and enter for the Lady Guinness shooting competition, for which representatives will be forthcoming from various parts of the Empire. Mr Freer (the writer stated) had decided to pay his son's passage, but it seemed hardly fair to allow him to pay the whole cost. A number of citizens had therefore requested him to approach the Mayor with the proposal to raise a public subscription. In accordance with this request Mr Myers this morning opened a subscription list. Mr Myers has headed the list with £3 3s.' '