ARMY RIFLE ASSOCIATION.

Otago Witness, Issue 3886, 4 September 1928, Page 34

ARMY RIFLE ASSOCIATION.

NEXT MEETING AT TRENTHAM. THE CONDITIONS REVISED. WELLINGTON, September 2. The recent changes that have been made in the service training of the British Army so as to meet the conditions of modern warfare, particularly the constitution of the infantry section, are reflected in the various matches and competitions to be held at the next meeting of the Army Rifle Association at Trentham from March 12 to 15, 1929. The programme for the meeting appears in greatly different form to that for past gatherings. The object of the alterations is to keep the standard of rifle and machine gun shooting among members of New Zealand’s citizen and permanent forces up to that of the army at Home. The coming meeting will include many more machine gun matches than hitherto, while, in addition, the match for the King’s Medal is to be competed for on exactly identical lines as the competition for the Kind’s Medal at Bisley. There are also several alterations in the Army Championship and other practices, while the battle practice competition is to be carried out with greater reality than in the past and over a much more extensive area The programme has been prepared by the defence authorities at this early date to enable would-be competitors to make themselves conversant with the new matches and to have ample opportunity of practice under the new conditions.