Mrs A. Lovell, who is the first woman to shoot in the championship matches at the national rifle meeting at Trentham, is a member of the Blenheim Rifle Club, states an exchange. She helped to make up a team for a country club one day four or live years ago half in a spirit of fun, grow interested in tho sport, and then became really good at it. For three years she has been a member of tho club team that has won the senior shield competed for by all clubs in the Marlborough district, and last month she represented Marlborough against Nelson and scored 90 of a possible hundred in a Milroy Shield match. She has a daughter aged 19 who shares with her the honour of being an active shooting member ox the Blenheim Club. Be. husband is an enthusiastic and expert
enced rifleman, but ho is at the Trentham meeting just to watch for Ins wife's success—which is a distincclv novel reversal of the usual roles at this great gathering.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 7105, 14 March 1933, Page 2
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