RIFLE SHOOTING

Wairarapa Age, 13 March 1929, Page 5

RIFLE SHOOTING

NEW ZEALAND ARMY MEETING OPENS. 5 IMPROVED MARKSMANSHIP RECORDED. YESTERDAY’S RESULTS. TRENTHAM, March 12. On account of the number of practices in each stage of the Army and Cabet championships of the New Zealand Army Rifle Association, the prize lists were not completed till the evening. The marksmanship discloses an improvement over that of last year, being ten points better. The Army Championship was divided into two classes, the first being for officers and members of units other than Territorials, and the second for the Territorial rank and file, the latter only being eligible for the Belt. The weather was perfect. In the first class first series, J. Kearney (Napier) 124, headed the list, taking £2; F. Ching (Trentham), 109,

taking 30s. In class two, A Symons (Hastings) 121 was first, taking £2; T. Sauvarin (Auckland) 112. second, taking 355, and W. Burton (Hastings) 106, taking 30s. Forty-nine divided £23. In the first stage of the Cadet Championship, comprising deliberate, snapshooting, rapid and moving target at 200 yards, possible 125 points, F. Jane (Hawke’s Bay), 105, was first, taking £2; J. Fuller (Waikato), 99, second, taking 30s; and H. Collinge (Hawke’s Bay), 97, third, taking 20s. 1 The Hotchkiss Gun Match, 500 to 200 ' yards, fire with movement; 400 yards superiority of fire; possible 144 points, resulted: £l2, Nelson and Marlborough Mounted Rifles, 1; £6, Auckland Mounted Rifles, 2; £3, East Coast Mounted Rifles, 3. Eight teams competed. Lewis Gun Match, similar conditions: £l2 and McKinney Challenge Cup, Southern’Depot Army Service Corps, 1; £lO, First Battalion Hawke’s Bay Regiment, 2; £5, First Battalion Southland Regiment, 3; 505., Fourth Field Battery New Zealand Artillery, 4. Twenty teams competed. Vickers Machine Gn Match, 600 to 400 yards, fire with movement; 600 yards, rapid action; possible 250 points: £l5, First Battalion Hawke ’s Bay Regiment, 151, 1; £lO, East Coast Mounted Rifles, 131, 2; £7 10s., Canterbury Cavalry, 130, 3; £5, First Battalion East Coast Regiment, 1J!8, 4. Twelve teams competed.—(P.A.)