RIFLE SHOOTING.
RUAHINE ASSOCIATION’S MEETING. WIKSS ASSOCIATION. WOODVILLE, March 19. Forty-eight entries were received for the Ruahino Rifle! .Association’s meeting,/ which started yesterday morning. Most of the competitors are using tho .303 rifle. Only three matches were finished yesterday. The following are I the prize-winners : * Petone Match, 200yds and 600yds, seven shots.—W. H. Ballinger (Petone), 65; W. J. Williams (Woodville). 63; G. Loveday (Woodville), H. Waldenl and Bidwill (Wairarapa), 62; F. W. Williams (Woodville), 61; J. G. Wilson ■and Lieutenant Donnigan (Gore), 60; Holland (Petone), Bcgg (Dunedin) and 'Humphries (Hastings), 59; and Sergeant Hobbs (Hastings), 58. Counted out —Sergeant Shanks (Gore), Welch andl Hoffeins.
Mas ter ton Match, 300yds,ten shots'.— W. H. Ballinger, 46; Gleaddw (Napier), 45; H. Hoffeins (North Wairarapa), H. Head (Wellington), Hawthorne (Wellington), 44; W. Loveday (WoodvilleL D. MoKnight (Dunedin), Shanks (Gore), Nelson (Woodville), 43; G. Loveday (Woodville) and Hollard (Petone),_ 42; Bcgg, (Dunedin) and Bidwill (Wairarapa), 41. Counted out—Willoughby, Wane and Anderson.
Nursery Match, ten shots at 500yds. —Gleadow (Napier) and Lindsay (Waiinate), 45; Horne (Woodville), Hobbs (Hastings), Anderson (Kaitangata), 44; D. MeKnight (Dunedin), 39. Counted out—MoCullock and! Kenny.
• was glorious weather for shooting this morning, with a strong, steady left wind. The prize-takers in the Napier. Match, 600yds and 600'yds, seven shots, wore —Bidwill, 66; J. G./Wilson and Beeg, 65; Hobbs and Doimigan, 6-1; MeKnight, Head and Hoffeins, 63; Humphries, Walden, Feist and Ballinger, 62; Turnbull, 60.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4310, 20 March 1901, Page 2
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