RIFLE SHOOTING.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 144351, 16 March 1914, Page 4

RIFLE SHOOTING.

BRITISH TEAM FOR AUSTRALIA. dt electric TP.LEGRArn-‘-cn"-’”r.nT. LONDON, March 15. At the National Rifle Association meeting, Fletcher, a director of Dalgety’s, winner of the King’s silver mefla! in 1908. proposed a closer association of tho Mother Country and the Overseas Dominions by giving the latter representation on the council. He suggested that the High Commissioners should bo vice-presidents and tho Agcnte-Gcnerals honorary members. Decision was postponed. ; I The King has donated £SO towards the cxoenscs of tho English team to Australia.

Mr. Barlow Somers, interviewed, said that over fifty cracks had applied, and these had been reduced to seventeen, who would shoot in the tests at Whitsuntide before twelve were finally selected. Of these only Amundsen. Fulton and Parnell were in tho last Australian team. Air. Somers asserts that it was useless to send any but the best shots. The team sails on August 10.