GOVERNMENT PRIZE FIRING.
TO THE EDtTOR OP THE INDEPENDENT. Wanganui, 30tli January, 1871. Siu, — I hope you will be good enough to insert tho following, with reference to the Government prize firing this season in this part of tho district. There are a party of men in this town, I mean the rifle association, and they.only have any chance of making good firing, and proving themselves marksmen, and tho reason is, they have been served out with new rifles, whereas the volunteers and militiamen had to compete with old rifles that hare been on duty since the commencement of the war. Therefore it is not possible that the old nflea could compote with the new rifloa, providing the men that uaed them were the best shots in the colony. To prove who are the beat shots in and about Wanganui, is to allow the whole of the competitors to practice with the earno sort of rifles, and I consider the practice we hare hud should ba performed again. I, as an individual, have experienced what I have stated, and if the Government will be good enough to allow the whole of the competitors to practice in the manner I have stated, they will truly find out who are the best shots. — I am, &c., A VOLUNTBEE.
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Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3118, 8 February 1871, Page 2
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GOVERNMENT PRIZE FIRING.
Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3118, 8 February 1871, Page 2
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