RIFLE SHOOTING.

Otago Witness, Issue 3382, 8 January 1919, Page 18

RIFLE SHOOTING.

ITS VALUE TO THE COMMUNITY. AUCKLAND, January 3. The astonishing information that of 30,000 cadets always in training in New Zealand 10,000 never do any shooting and 10,000 fire only a few shots was given out by Major Wallingford at the presentation of prizes %t the concluding day's shooting of the Auckland Rifle Association's meeting at Penrose yesterday. The remaining, 10,000, he said, had learned to shoot very well. He was emphasising the necessity of inducing the young men of the dominion to take up rifle shooting, and suggested that some incentive in the way of trophies should be offered. "The old cohtemptiblcs," he continued, were trained to shoot at the rate of 15 shots pec minute, and they always claimed that tbey were caoable of accounting fcr five Germans at any time ov place. He urged rifle dubs to persevero with the instruction of tho youth of the country in rifle shooting as the only way of ensuring our safety. ,*"P e shooting was, in his opinion, one of the greatest assets the country could posses*.