SAFETY OF NEW ZEALAND.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10517, 4 January 1912, Page 6

SAFETY OF NEW ZEALAND.

PLEA FOR RIFLE SHOOTING.

i'Lsj Tdeijraph—l'icss Association.J

AUCKLAND, January 2,

In the course of a speech- in presenting the [prizes won a.t the Rifle Association's meeting this morning, -lie Mmvoi- of Amokiiand (Mr -0. J. ■Vii-y. > said, that, after all, the safety oi'New Zealand from foreign- attacks inmcr upon a. rather slender thread. \itavii was the diisturhcd state of Europe that any day there might he a big, \vaa-, into which England might lie dragged. Siich was the regrettable state of feeling between England and another great Empire that any day roar happen, and in such a deplr.rahic ove.ivt no one could tell what the complications' might be. The Rifle Associations and rifle clubs.')iig:i:t to receive the support of the .-.hole comm.iiO'ky. (Applause). At present tin y relied to a great extent lupon private assistance, and he appealed to the citizens to increase this (assistance. Furt.herm-ore, the Mayor rxpressrtl the cp-iiiion that it was high tin:o the State recognised and encouraged rifle associatioms more than w;.S' the case at- pre-scnt. In time of '.vai" a good shot would he worth fifty bad ones. (Cheers).