RIFLE SHOOTING.
CHAMPIONSHIP MEETING.
(Bv Telegraph. —Press Association.) GREYTOWN, This Day.
Two matches were completed yesterday at lite rifle championship meeting at Parawai. The weather was patchy, alternating drizzle and sunlit moments thai were more troufolesome than the rain and mwi The wind was steady generally, fbut sun and clouds caused frequent light that upset elevation. , „„„ The Auckland Match, 500 and 600 yards, ten shots, fell to Koppert, of Oamaru, with a score of 97—three off the possible; he took £lO. Next came Kyle (Linton), £7; Guy (Kaponga), £5; Feast (Greytown), £4, with 96 each; then came Barnett (Wakapuaka), 95, taking £4. (Scores of 90 got into the bottom of the prize list. The Wellington Match, ten shots at 600 yards (with prizes of the same respective values as in the previous match), fell to Bryan (Auckland), wifh a score of 49; he was followed hy Henderson (Petone), also 49; Cadet Atkinson, Croxton, and Twiner, each 48. One score of 44 got into the prize list, and fourteen were counted out.
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Waipa Post, Volume XXI, Issue 1210, 25 February 1922, Page 5
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171RIFLE SHOOTING. Waipa Post, Volume XXI, Issue 1210, 25 February 1922, Page 5
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