RIFLE ASSOCIATION MEETING.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14006, 10 March 1920, Page 4

RIFLE ASSOCIATION MEETING.

(Per Press Association.) TRENTHAM, March 10. The morning was fine, but there was a light variable breeze that was unsteady. The Service Championship tinal stage was in progress at 200. "><)?). and 600 yards, the result whereof will be added to the scores in the earlier -Service series. The winner was C. 31. Moss (Dunedin). with an aggregate of •J3S. * The Running 3lan Competition was- olso finished, and was won by Major Wallingford. and an extra match at 900 yards. leaving the way clear for the Kinc's Prize shoot thw afternoon. Croston. the leader, whose position is almost unassailable.' is 34 • years of age. and employed in the Education Department at Wellington. He has been shooting for the past 11 vears —first with the Wellington Xavals and later with the Karon" Rifle Club, the championship whereof he annexed in 1913. In 1915 he won the Hawke-'s Bay Championship, and twice previously—in 1913 and 1914 —has climbed "into the King's Fifty at Trentham. Croxton. who does not eschew the pipe, is' regarded as a sound all-round marksman. QUICK MARCH (Running' 3lan)< Competition, seven shots at 200 yards: possible, 34. —£4. 3lajor Wallingford (Auckland), 24; £3, S. S. 31. Gray (Trentham), 22. The following, with stores of 20. take 33s 4d each: —J. Te Whaiti (Teaharangi), S. S. 31. Levy (Trentbam) and A. G. Devore (Aka-« rana). 22 scores down to 14 got £l_ each. The geld medal for the grand aggregate in the and Beit series twbs won bv W. H. West (Blenheim), the runner-up being H. V. Croxton (Karori). thus reversing the positions they hold as leaderJsud run-ner-up in the" aggregate for the King's Prize.

The following iVthe list in the Service Championship:—C. 31. Moss (Dunedin), £ls. the Kynoch Cup and gold medal. 222; A. .T. Green (Westport), £6 and silver medal. 220; A. G. Devere (Akarana), £5 and bronze medal, 219; Lance-Corporat J. R. Baird (Hamilton Cadets), £4. 218; Major J. A. Wallingford (Auckland). £3, 217. Twentythree prizes of £1 each went to scores ranging from 214 to 194.