CLAY-BIRD SHOOTING

Waipa Post, Volume 43, Issue 3392, 24 December 1931, Page 5

CLAY-BIRD SHOOTING

TE AWAMUTU GUN CLUB.

' The Christmas shoot of the Te Awa- : mutu Gun Club/, at Mr.M. McNair's > " Thorncombe " property ; attracted ca; fair attendance last Sunday afternoqii if including several Otorohanga competitors 1 and friends. The day .was not ideal for good accurate shdotingj but some of "the events produced keen contest|-'rand.:jg6od markmanship. .;.; - \~~" _,'.,# . In the first competition, six? birds, L. Marsh and Pratt. (Otorqhanga), ; ; each shot the "possible, and sivided| the stake. - . | ; SJo. 2 sweepstake, also of again resulted ;ih a tie, L... man, M. Pra#> and W. Seymour (Otorohanga) dividing. The third competition jjras forj'a. •Christmas goose presented by';W&K;£ T. Cooper,, and a keen contest / saw H. L. Marsh win the-coveted trophy, getting the •'whbl^e^eh^rbirdsgp^; A Christmas for the fourth contest, and the winner, proved to be M. Pratt, whj9fmadfe* no mistake with his seven birds, . The fifth: competition was D. Fit?gerald!s; trophy, MJ Pratt' pf|j L. Zimmerman' getting:, th^wh'qlMseYT; | en birds. To find the-winner they ; shot on, Zimmerman teenth, the prize thus going. to.Pratt;! Mr W. Perrin's trophy was;. the ' first prize in the seventh contest, j and again M. Pratt won, bagging fif-| teen birds in succession tfrpih thelback' J mark ■'■■.H. L. teen birds to boat W. Seymour fos second honours. ' | ,'_ [ ;-*g| A. T. Cootkj', . r '.th ten success fm). birds, won the seventh sweepstdfe, with L. Zimmerman (nine bir v)/econd. litSm^'^s A quail drive, concluded ,W^KP^M sport, aud aT. Pra'tj|jß Njfl zeennjjmrJM •'^Every^fovt is U A - p>uM|-.industiJli^ A'ackljH Hkircd <fl