RIFLE SHOOTING AT BISLEY
■EMPIRE TEAMS’ COMPETITIONS.
BRITAIN WINS KOLAPORE CUP.
(British Wireless). Rec. 5.5 p.m. Rugby, July 15. At the Bisley rifle meeting Great Britain won the Ko'lapore Cup from Canada by seven points after an exciting match. Scores: Great Britain 1122, Canada 1115, Rhodesia 1111, India 1093. Jersey was fifth and Guernsey sixth. This is the 55th contest for. the cup. Britain has now won it 35 times and Canada, the only other country to enter every year, 13 times. , ' The junior Kolapore Imperial trophy was won yesterday by a team representing the Falkland Islands, the members of which travelled 8000 miles to compete. They won with 516 points, two points more than Nigeria. The Gold Coast was third, Straits Settlements fourth, Soudan fifth, Trinidad (the holder) sixth and the Federated Malay States seventh.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 July 1930, Page 11
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