NEW SHOOTING TROPHY.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12588, 18 August 1910, Page 3

NEW SHOOTING TROPHY.

THE "DAILY MAIL" MINIATURE CLUBS AND THE EMPIRE. The "Daily Mail" recently announced that at .the" request of Lord Roberts, tho proprietors of that journal have decided to inaugurate a competition for the miniature rifle clubs of the British Empire. The contest will be open to any team of ten from any miniature rifle club in the British Empire affiliated to the Society of Miniature Rifle Clubs, Queen Victoria Street, E.G., and will be shot on Lord. .Roberts's birthday, September 30, each year. Lord Roberts has issued an appeal to the miniature rifle clubs of the Empire, in. tho course of which he says: —"At | present there are affiliated' to "the Society of Miniature Rifle Clubs, about 2500 clubs, representing' a membership jof about 250,000. Great progress has I been made since the formation of tho [.society in 1904; but much still remains ito be done. As an incentive- to- fur'thor'effort the 'Daily Mail' has kindly 1 offered to present eacli year for corn- | petition a, 50-guiuea cup and silver commemorative- medals, and I sincsrsly l'.opo that every miniature rifle club at j Homo and abroad which is affiliated or I can become affiliated, to the Society of Miniature Rifle Clubs will make a special effort to enter a representative team." . Secretaries of clubs and others 'interested in miniature rifle shooting are reI quested to communicate with the or- ! gnnising secretary, the "Daily Mail" Miniature Cltibi' Contest, Carmelite House, London. E.G. The conditions of the contest have been drawn nn hv an advisory committee, of which Lord Roberts is chairman. The dhtanccrwill bo 25 yards and 20-shots will be firecl — 10 deliberate and ten in 90 .seconds. Entries must be received not later than the first past on Senteiubsr 1, 1910. To the team making the highest aggregate- score- a 50-guinea cmi and ten mlver commemorativs medals will be givsn. The team making the second highest aggregate score and the oversea team, other than a winning team, making the hichest aggregate score will also receive silver medals.