ARRANGEMENTS PERFECTED.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 58, 4 March 1909, Page 5

ARRANGEMENTS PERFECTED.

A: RECORD GATHERING

[PRESS ASSOCIATION.] ■ TRENTHAM, March $. T&e weather promises to be fine tor t&e opening of the Trentham meeting to morrow There are at present m 1 camTSI officers,3ooN-C.O's. and men and 181 Rifle Clubmen. Two hundred Snts have been erected to^omP etitors and nine ma-rquees. A his is m addition to the .accommodation occupied by members of the Permanent ArtilleiT; who are acting as markers, etThe camp arrangements : this year are excellent, and contpetitors .have shown their aippreciatian of this tact by nearly all being -accommodated under canvas, instead numbers being located in farmhouses, as in tormer years I* is .provable that next meeting will see eveiry competitor re•mainiaig permanently m camp or nis ■own free wall. . The -Bdflo Club and Volunteer Matches, ,at -200, -SOO and 800 yards, -will be -entered iupon m the morning- These will occupy practically -the whole- day. . < ; . , This is i'th© largest meeting in tho history -of- the Association.