VISITING RIFLEMEN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19871, 15 February 1928, Page 12

VISITING RIFLEMEN.

NEW SOUfHI WALES TEAM. COMPETITORS AT TRENTHAM. Twelve riflemen from New South Wales arrived from Sydney by the Maunganui yesterday and will take part in the New Zealand rifle championship meeting at Trentham, cbmmencing on February 23. The team is a very strong and representative one and it is hoped it will give a good account of itself. The members of tho team, who all live in New South Wales, are as follows: Captain A. R. McLeod, who is captain of the team; Messrs. E. Boyd, A W. Latimer, F. Stockbridge, B. Freak, G. Ferge, W. J. Fulton, F. W. Wilesmith, E. J. Shannon, A. S. Ferguson, H. Taylor, and A. K. Johnston. Messrs. Shannon and Boyd have both been members of representative Australian teams which have been sent to Bisley. Captain McLeod said he felt nothing but good could come of an inter-change of visits of this sort. The coming of the Australians was really the result of the recent visit of a New Zealand rifle team to Australia, the New Zealanders having asked the National Rifle Association of New South Wales to send the team to tho Dominion.* VICTORIAN CONTINGENT. ARRIVAL AT WELLINGTON. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION. ] WELLINGTON. Tuesday. Members of the Victorian team who are to compete at the annual meeting of the National Rifle Association at Trentham next week, arrived by the Marama to-day, and were welcomed at the wharf. The hope was expressed that there would be an interchange of visits between Australian and New Zealand rifle teams in future.