RIFLE RANGE.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13420, 18 March 1914, Page 2 (Supplement)

RIFLE RANGE.

Messrs. Joseph Holland ■ (p^xesid^nt),; W. W." Snodgrass r(vice-pre^dent);:Ff:! Gledhill and J. Milroy' (members),, of. the Nelson Defence Rifle Cl]i,b, aaVjed for assistance '".from »he i \G*h*era:nent towards purchasing a small area of land at Brightwater in order .to vide facilities for a 1000 lyar.ds/ range. The Prime Minister said _ that '■'. sl-> though the matter was not iii Jus Department, like the Minister for .Defence, he was anxious to encourage* rifle shooting. "He said he would niakie representations to the SMini^ter ffor Defence, and promised tojadd his recommendation. Mr. Massey ttok the opportunity of ; congratulating 'Marlborough and Nelson marksmen on' the; showing they had made at the recent meeting at.Trentham. -