RIFLE SHOOTING.
ASSET TO THE EMPIRE. jf N.E.A. EULOGISED BY PRINCE. [ LONDON, Thursday. Tim Prince of Wales, in a speech aS a dinner given by the National Riile Association at the Mansion House, ire connection with an appeal for financial support, referred to the value to the Empire of the competition for the King's Shield and Imperial Challenge Shield.
lie emphasised the achievement off the Association in fostering overseas intercourse, and paid a tribute to it* work iu 'encouraging pinrk.smfin.Ship, remarking that the standard of rapid fire in the Expeditionary Force was so high that the Germans were convinced it could only have been caused by machine guns.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 13 March 1925, Page 5
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