SERVICE SERIES CONTINUED

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8367, 1 March 1913, Page 6

SERVICE SERIES CONTINUED

BUSY DAY FOR RIFLE CLUB MEN. DISSERTATION ON DISCIPLINE. RESULTS AT A GLANCE. Thursday. Loophole Cover, D. Roots, Patea. Rapid Shooting, J. Yeo, Auckland. Snapshooting, W. Cox, Auckland. Friday. Regimental Tea'ms, Wellington Suburbs Field-firing, Opaki R.C. (A). Observation, Auckland City R.C. Casualty, Wellington Suburbs R.C. Superiority of Fire, Akarana R.C. Aggregate, Wellington Suburbs R.C. Extra No. 1, H. Cuthbertson (Tuamarina), and J. McMahon (Sounds), tie. Extra No. 2, Pte. S. Mayhew, Feilding. WEATHER PROBABILITIES TO-DAY. Pair to cloudy, variable winds, moderate to strong northerhes prevailing. Yesterday was more or less an off day at Trentham, when the twelfth annual prize meeting of the Dominion Rifle Association was continued. The A series of Service matches was entered upon, glorious weather favouring the marksmen. In the morning a fairly strong northerly wind prevailed, but it gradually died away and changed to a moderate southerly in the early afternoon. The most interesting feature of the day was a speech made by Captain Wallingford to tho teams who participated in the Regimental Team Match, Captain Wallingford is among the most prominent authorities on rifle shooting in the British Empire—perhaps in the world —and his remarks were interesting and straight to the point. DISCIPLINE WANTED. Captain Wallingford, who acted as fire commander, said that with the exception of the discipline, oho match had been a successful one. the discipline was rather bad. Had some of the Imperial officers been present, also some o f their own officers (who generally could not shoot and liked to run riflemen down), they would have had cause to condemn the discipline. Riflemen should learn drill, which was necessary for work in the field. If they did not carry out a little bit of druj and become disciplined, then they would be of very little use in the field. Captain Wallingford spoke in terms of the highest praise respecting the manner in which the Karori team had performed its field exercises. The Karori men had oeen awarded the full amount of points allowed for firo discipline, but in order that this could be done, deductions had to be made from the other teams’ points. Karori had had to he taken as the standard. A fire commander should always keep his wits about him, and have complete control of the men under him. If the men paid attention to the orders of their fire commander and endeavoured to knock their enemy over they would do well. riflemen to turn out in uniform now and again and do some field worl: ne did not think that an army would be needed in New Zealand. Two or three days would be sufficient to enable them to become more perfect in drill. Officers were inclined to term riflemen “pot-hunters” —he was a “pot-hunter” himself —but if riflemen paid attention to the points he had noted, the officers would not have a leg to stand on. MESSAGE FROM MINISTER. Colonel Collins, camp commandant, has received telegraphic advice that the Hon. R. Heaton Rhodes, ActingMinister of Defence, would be attending the meeting, probably on the final day. The Minister expressed the,hope that the meeting would be a successful one.