RIFLE SHOOTING.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 27 February 1914, Page 5

RIFLE SHOOTING.

THE TRENTHAM MEETING.

OPENING DAY

I (£f £eUgraf>h—Prm Auociatio».t TRENTHAM, Last Night. The Dominion Rifle Association mating <3oiKmenced this morning int Unfavourable ,weaifher, and a cold southerly wfficf'bW all day. The entries comprise: Staff, 5 f territorials?, &7; riflemen, 38»; total, 36-L'. There are ninety-ono tyros included.

I Colonel ColliUSi- in opening the proceedings, pointed out that if the ilhipiro Match was fifed at Melbonr.rie, New Zealand would be ♦epfesentied, and eight 1 meiwbers of the team wo'dldbe chosen frtfih the first fifty salefcted to fire for th*» Belt. Th« remaSriitig member® wottld bo selected by tne Committee. He also congra-, tulated the members onthe improved outloolt' for the Association.'

The present comprise Irvine, CKfotg, Hyde, Milroy', Loveday, King; Roots, Duncafl" and Captain Ross, former Carbine champion.

During thV afternoon His Excellency the Governor qjid General Godley visited the* camp. His Excellency expressed hi-nself pleased with the range, and the arrangements for" the firing. The following wire was received to-day by Colonel Colljns front the Hon. James Allen, Minister of' Defence:—"l am sorry I cannot be present at the opening of the meeting; to-day, hut I hope you will Tiave propitious weather and a very successful gathering, and that the results may be to the benefit of rifle shooting in. the Dominion." The first match of the series to be> completed was snap-shooting, SOOyds, five rounds, targets exposed for fouir seconds, one shot at each exposureResults: Rifleman Head (Akarana)' £5, 2.1; Sergt-Major Montgomery (staff), £4, 20; Rflni Anstice (Nelson} £3, "20; Rflm Croxton (Karori) £3, 20; Rflm Caldwell (Karori> £2, 20; Rflm Fisher (Suburbs'! £2, 20; Sergt. Norby (11th following, with scorns of 1 9. w"r> £l' eaeh v : Steensnn ({)?,™r>i-v) Tnno/Atarana), Lover) a v (Wood*-'IH, T-eeTsst ' (WaikatoV Hal-npbnw (Ohristchurch); Simmons (Flenhci-nV Milroy (Nelaon)v * Keene (Drroraville), Green (WestportV Mnronzio CEketahuna), Melville (AknrnnaV The following, with scores of 18. nteo r-w £1 : Tnr-» ine (Nelson). Johnston Hutchison (Ranoiri). (T& Aroha), Amrv? (Afltlvn.t —V "Boys Crimam), Smith (OjyiViV Crofl? (Chorlton), Barroll <T<: ArohnV __