TEAM FOR BISLEY
CHAMPIONS SHOULD BE SENT. Speaking at Hie Karori Rifle Club’* smoke social, to ’Champion H. V. Croxton last evening, Mr H. _ Oakley Browne said it was a pity that the Government could not see its way_ to send a team to Bisley this year. New Zealand had shown its powers in the rifle-shooting world as in other branches of sport, and Sergeant Loveday had won the blue riband of the British Empire in rifle shooting last year by gaining at Bisley the King s Prize. The sports bodies of the . Dominion were raising funds to send an athletic team to Antwerp to compete in the Olympic Games, and he suggested ■ that the shooting men of New Zealand should immediately • take in hand the raising of a- fund to send to Bisley this year, if not a team, at least Sergeant to defend the British championship, together with Rifleman Croxton, the New Zealand champion. He had no doubt they would give a good account of themselves. (Applause.) ' ■
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10559, 9 April 1920, Page 6
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