TAURANGA NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18211, 3 October 1922, Page 8

TAURANGA NEWS.

CADETS' FfNE SHOOTING. [EX TEUWRAPS.-~aWN CORRESPONDENT.]

TAURANGA. Monday, Good shooting was done at the rifle range on Saturday by the local cadets during tho firing of the annual musketry course. Five boys who completed classification practices obtained the remarkably high average of 99.8 points out of 120, individual scores being 116, 108, 102, 88* and 85. One of these was a Srst-ycar cadet. Eight cadets have to date completed the full course, and of these "six havo won the marksman's badge awarded for a score of 85 points in classification practice. Tho average of those eight cadets is 93 points. Showers fell last night and this morning, and havo further improved prospects for dairy farmers. Farmers all over the district are busy preparing land in readiness for tho maize crop, a good acreage of -which will be planted this season. The natives of Matakana and Motiti Islands will again plant a large area. ■

Fruit trees in numerous local orchard** are now a mass of bloom, present indications pointing to a good fruiting season. The Tauranga branch of tho PlunkoV Society is making good progress in its organising work. During the past week Te Puke and The Mount have been visited by members of the committee, with a view to establishing eub-stations. Most satisfactory meetings are reported, and there is every reason to believe-that these out stations will bo formed. Bethlehem was also visited, and substantial promises of support were given. Miss Wilson, who is senior Plunket nurse at Wanganui, and js spending a holiday in Tanranga, ac companicd the committee and spoke at all meetings on the work of the Plunket nurses. It is the intention of the committee to canvass tho whole of the district ior members during the next fortnight.