VOLUNTEERS.
The Premier is willing to sell to officers of Volunteer corps rifles at cost price, but he cannot see his way to grant them the reduction on cost price which is made to members of rifle clubs. He is averse to making any reduction in the price nowcharged for ammunition. The present price at which this is issued to Volunteers (11s per 100. rounds) is fid less than the actual cost price to the Government, charged by the Auckland Ammunition Company. In reply to a question put to him yes. terday by Mr Napier, Mr Seddon said he ! was favourable to the compulsory acquisition of laud for rifle ranges. There was urgent necessity, be considered, for the acquisition of ranges near the large centres of population at once, so that ample opportunity for rifle practice might be aiforded. He hud under bis notice an eminently suitable piece of land in the vicinity- of Wellington. A report was to bo prepared on it for him by local officers, and he trusted soon to be able to do something definite in the matter.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4440, 21 August 1901, Page 5
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182VOLUNTEERS. New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4440, 21 August 1901, Page 5
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