NATIONAL RIFLE MEETING

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19374, 24 December 1932, Page 19

NATIONAL RIFLE MEETING

IMPROVEMENT IN PROGRAMME The National Rifle Association has now issued the programme for the Trentham meeting in March next, and it reads far better than any put out for several years. The service series will be run on the same lines as those last year, but the opening matches have been eliminated, there being no fewer than eight matches in the belt series The first is seven shots at each of 300, 500 and 600 yards, and the others are all 10-shot matches at the following ranges:—3oo, 600, 500 and 600, 800, 900, 800 and 900. and 900, with a final at 900 for the top 40. In addition, there is the usual list of optional aggregates. Competitors will shoot in two grades instead of three as formerly, and this change will be welcomed, as previously a placed score ip B grade might have been unplaced in C grade in some in-

stances, the position being farcical. The programme is based on 150 entries, but the prize-list is guaranteed, and is most attractive. It is to be hoped that the local clubs will make every effort to get a team away to the meeting.