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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 142, 18 July 1929, Page 7

Private advice received in Napier to-day stated that the New Zealand golf team to visit Anstralia later in the niontlx has been finally selected as follows: — Sliaw (Napier), Mclntosh (Auckland), Moss- (Christchurch) and Douglas (Wellington). The team will ■ play a game in A udklaiid before going to Australia. At a special general meeting of the First Hawlie's Bay RegimentaL Band witli the Napier Citizens' Band, it was decided to accept all the clauses in the agreemenb drawn up by the City C'ouncil and band representatives. The following were appointed from the Citizens' Committee : — Messrs J. W. • CYTlaghan, Ivimey, and S. Hnrris ajid Messrs C. McConuell, A. Ganna>vay and H. J. Cairns will represent the band on the newl.v-tornied committee. 'Ihe meeting unanimonsly decided to .frrward a letter to the City Council Ehowing their appreciation and gratitude for the decided step it liad taken m givjng the band a eliance to place "tbemselves on a levei with other bands -of the Dominion. In eormection witli tlio New Zealan-t Pigeon Chanipionsliip shoot off yesterday, it is interesting to note that Murray Pratt has tied for and lost the aggregate medal on tliree past occasion-i. Edgar Stead, a past president of the New Zealand Gun Club Association and a life member, wlio scored 20 out cf 21 in tbe pigeon championship, has had tlio inisfortune to bo runner-up cn . about tc-n difi'erent occasions. The two competitors wlio tied and shot off lor the New Zealand Pigeon Championship created a record yesterday in New ZoaJanl, for a soore-of lifty kills Tho late Andrew Dobson created an unheaten record when, in 1921, lie wou two out of the threo championship, the sparrows and pigeons, and in the fol- . loving year lie won the New Zealand day cham])ionship. Had E. Groome . won yesterday, be would have been tte second sbooter in New Zealand to liave accompiishcd this fact. The tliree meo concerned in the New Zealand pigeon championship shoot were all using we brand of cartridges, of New Zealand matmfacture. This is not only a credit to tho shooters, hut a great credit to a New Zealand seeondary industry.