Group 16 Rifle Meeting

Tuapeka Times, Volume XLV, Issue 6135, 7 February 1914, Page 1

Group 16 Rifle Meeting

At Goto, ou 30th aud 31st January, i'Jl'i, a most successtul , group niie meeting (open to member* of tli« Territorial l>or«e and Ssuior Cadet* ot group lb) was held. A Government grunt 01 XJO, subsidised by a lew public donations, enabled the otlicer in charge (Captain d. Ji. Henderson, A.Zi.B.'C./ lo so apportion the money, that out oi Lo entrants only is aid not receive u monetary prize. The various umtß in the group were represented by prize-winners in ilw six inatcnes an ioilows :— Utk reg>; ment iiL.il., M ; 14th (5.0.) regimwl, SO j Bruce Senior Cadets, 6; Kaitaugata Senior Cadets la; TuapeKa Senior Cadets, i ; leviot Senior Cachets, 1; (Jlutha Senior Uadeta, i> ; Cattins Senior Cadets, ,5; Clinton Senior Cadets 5 ; Core Senior Cadets, 3 ; Cordon Seuior Cadets, b; Core H<gli School Cadets 3; Jlataura Seaior Cadets, 3; Munhmu (Wy»dhum) Senior Cadets, a; jslue Mountain (i'spanui) 16.

A champion match (for Territorials and Cadets respectively J was also held, open to the 'AI highest in the aggiegate in matches 1 to 6. The following u the result :

Territorial Championship. Private It.- J. jUcl)c*ald, ttlh i1.1i., Ist prize, gold medal and £2) ; Private A. T. Johnston, Mth (S.U.J regiment, 2nd prize and silver medal and £1) ; Private W. T. Marshall, llith regiment i11.K., 3rd prize (silver mud»l and lUs). Senior Cadet Cbampiowhip. Cadet C. Hardy (Uluo Mountain Company), Ist prize, (gold medal and £1 lUs ; Cadet Si. Ltaugh, Blue M.uunt»iu Company, ;!nd prize (gold and silver medal and 15aj; Cadet 1). Burnstt, Blue Mountain Company), 3rd prize (silver medal and 7s <id). Captain J. Si. Henderson (Group Oilicer) was in. charge, assisted by Lieutenant Purdy, Is.Z.S.C., and the following non-commissioned olhcers of the Permanent Stall', Sergeants-Major iiowe'j 'ilcilillan, Gustafson, 'l'6'iiard, Pryde, Colbert and Catlo.