NAVY SHOOTING IMPROVERS.

Progress, Volume I, Issue 5, 1 March 1906, Page 119

NAVY SHOOTING IMPROVERS.

A Blue Book has been issued by the Admiraltygiving the results of gun-laying tests with heavy guns during the present year. It is noted that there is a great improvement in the results as compared to former years. On the East India station the " Perseus " obtained the comparative best record, for her fortythree gunners made a score of 100.09, with an average of 66.66 points per man. The " Iphigenia " obtained the Order of Merit on the China station with a 91.40 score, and the "Pelorus," in South African waters, was awarded the same distinction for 74.58. Petty-Officer W. T- Squibb, of H.M.S. " Illustrious," was the best individual gunner, making 88.14 points with the I2in. Mark VIII. gun.

At the Auckland branch of the American School of Correspondence classes have been inaugurated for instruction in automobile management and electric street-car driving.