MILITARY TOURNAMENT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14568, 3 January 1911, Page 5

MILITARY TOURNAMENT.

[l«Y TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Palmkrston North, Monday. Beautiful weather prevailed for the second day of the,military and naval tournament, and a great crowd was on the ground. General Godloy and a numher of members of the headquarters staff were present. The College Rifles (Auckland) won the Maxim gun competition.

'The No. 3 Company Engineers (Auckland) came third in' the field observatory competition. The Waikaio Mounted Rifles team won the wrestling on horseback event, and Sergeant Ramstcd, of the same corps, was placed second in the lemon-cutting competition. The first and second places in the tent-pegging sections were obtained by the Waikato Mounted Rifles, who were also second to the Tasmanian Battery in the Lloyd Lindsay competition. The same corps was second in the tent-pitching and striking contest. .■■/,!> ■ ■ ,

The commandant, in the courso of a speech said ho was pleased that his first/official visit out of Wellington was paid to a centre where the martial spirit was so dominant as it evidently was in Palmerston North. This probably accounted for the .success of the tournament. He felt that there was the same martial feeling all over the country, so the success of the new military training scheme would bo made. ...

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