Drill Hall & Rifle Range

Southern Cross, Volume 9, Issue 23, 7 September 1901, Page 9

Drill Hall & Rifle Range

Volunteers and Rifle Club members are invited to contribute to this column Items of news, diagrams of targets reports of matches, meetings, and all events of interest to volunteers and shooting men will be received. Address I “ Magpie,” Southern Cboss Office. Parade nights of local corps : Garrison Band, Mondays and Thursdays ; City Guards, Mondays, regularly ; Oreti Rifles, Tuesdays, regularly; Awarua Rifles, Fridays, regularly; Mercantile Rifles, Wednesdays, regularly; the Gore Rifles parade regularly, Government Inspection being held on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays in each month ; Southland Mounted Rifles, town contingent, foot parades ariry *vcond Thursday at Garrison Hail jijj, i;ed parades every fourth Wednesday afternoon at Waibiwi ; Winton, Thornbury and Otautau contingent parade as per dates on cards issued to each member. NOTES BY “MAGPIE.” The Mercantile Rifles held their weekly parade in the Zealandia Hall, owing to ibe officers’ examination being held on the same night in the Garrison Hall. There was a good attendance, some 40 or more being on parade. The Company held a meeting in the orderly rooms to elect a junior subaltern, in place of Lieut. Wilson, who has resigned from the Company, Two nominations were made, and the company selected Col.-Sergfc. Moffett to the position. It was also decided that the Company in future hold their parades on Tuesday night in the Zealandia Hall, and it is to be hoped that this will greatly improve the attendance. Privates Hunter, Bain, F. Thomson, Mann and Christophers were nominated as non-coms., and they will require to go up for their examination in December. * * # All the volunteer corps of Wellington have been armed with the new magazine rifle, and it is expected that the rest of the corps of the colony will be armed with the same weapon by the end of September. * * * The decision of the Hew Zealand Government to place a sum on the Supplementary Estimates to meet the cost of sending a rifle team to compete at the next Bisley meeting, will be noted with interest by all marksmen in the colony. The Bisley meeting does nob take place until June, 1902, so that there is abundance of time for making all arrangements. # * * Lieut.-Col. R. H. Davies, who went to South Africa with the First Contingent, has been appointed to the command of the Auckland volunteer district.