RIFLE SHOOTING.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXII, Issue 13574, 21 October 1904, Page 5

RIFLE SHOOTING.

THi:. NEW SOUTH WALES MEETING. United Press Aissocintion—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, October 20. The Petone team was disqualified, the regulations regarding bona fide membership not being complied with. Franklin was ninth in the Da-ngar Match, and takes £2, and Hofobs and Ching £1 each. (One of the regulations- of the Rifle Club competition provides that a bona fide member of a club is on© who is an active- member of a. club, and it is owing probably to r.omo member of the- team not being " active," as defined by the regulations, which has caused the disqualification. This is the second occasion that the Petone Club has been disqualified at the Sydney meeting. The Dangar Match is fired at the 800yds and 900yds ranges, seven shots at each distance. Franklin is a member of the Weber Rifle Club, Hawke's Bay. and he is an enthusiastic marksman. Hobbs is captain "of the Zealn-ndia Rifles, Wellington, and Ching is the well-known Nelson shot, at present.champion of the colony.)