RIFLE SHOOTING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 1, 3 January 1939, Page 12

RIFLE SHOOTING

JULY AT BISLEY CHAMPIONSHIP MEETINGS LONDON, Dec. I’. The 76th annual prize meeting of the National Rifle Association will be held at Bisley next year from July 10 to July 22. The National SmallBore Meeting, run conjointly by the N. and the Society of Miniature Rifle Clubs, will be held at Bisley from July 10 to July 15. Services Week, during which the championships of the Army, Royal Navy and Royal Marines are determined, will be from July 3 to July 8. The Territorial Army Central Meeting starts on July 9 and ends on July 12. There are no changes for next year in N.R.A. targets, weapons, or ammunition. and so far only one new competition has been announced. This is to be shot for concurrently with the first stage of the King's Prize and is designed to help to finance an overseas team fund to make possible more regular visits of British rifle teams to the Dominions and Colonies than has been possible in the past. Public school boys who are members of the Junior Division of the O. and boys who are members of Cadet Corps are to be permitted to shoot for the King's Prize at an entrance fee ot 5s instead of the £1 which is the normal entrance fee. In view of the importance of telescopic sight shooting to the Army there is to be an extension of the accommodation available for sporting and sniping rifle competitions and it is likely that additional matches for these weapons will be announced later. New competitions for the ,22-inch pistol and revolver are being arranged. In the last two years there has been a great increase in interest in what may be described as rniniaI ture pistol shooting and the N.R.A. I has assumed control of this branch of the sport. In making its announcements of I rules and regulations for next year, the Council of the N.R.A. places on record its appreciation of the work done by Major C. E. Etches, C. 8., 0.8. E.. as secretary of the association during the last seventeen years and welcomes in his place as from October 1 last Major-General Sir Alan Hunter, K.C.V.0., C. 8., C.M.G., D. 5.0., M.C. Colonel Lord Cottesloe, C. 8., V.D., T.D., has been re-elected chairman, and Lieut.-Colonel Sir Philip W. Richardson. Bart., 0.8. E., V.D., vicechairman of the council.