RIFLE SHOOTING
PROVINCIAL match WIN FOR WELLINGTON | Per Pre>? Association. i WELLINGTON, March 2. All the provinces were represented in lhe district teams match which was fired at Trent ham to-day in bright sunshine. This match was held for the first time this year, having been arranged as a preliminary to the annual championship meeting of the National RiP.e Association, which is to start to-morroy. Keen interest was taken in the match, which was won by the Wellington team with an aggregate score of 1830 out of a possible 2000. Ten teams'contested the match, each team consisting of ten men. The conditions of the match were ten rounds a man at 300, 600, SOO and 900 yards. Good conditions were experienced during the morning, but as the marksmen moved back to the longer ranges a rear fishtail wind caused trouble to several competitors. The members of the Wellington team shot consitsently well over ail the ranges to finish with a margin of 14 points over the Auckland team, which took second place with an
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 53, 4 March 1939, Page 7
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174RIFLE SHOOTING Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 53, 4 March 1939, Page 7
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