NEW ZEALAND RIFLE ASSOCIATION.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2446, 10 March 1909, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND RIFLE ASSOCIATION.

THE TRENTHAM MEETING. „ fPress Association.] TRENTHAM, March 9. Firing in the Auckland match avos concluded to-day. The folloAving Avere the prize Avinners : Auckland Match, 200 and 600 yards —£s, James (Napier), 98; £4, Dewar (Oamaru), 96;£4, Guy (Kaponga) 96; £3, ShaAv (Auckland), 96; £3, Earle (Riversdale), 95. Parr (Karori), Atkinson (Auckland), Grindell (Napier), and Currie (Riversdale) take £1 each with 94. The remainder take £1 each. In the tyros, ten take £1 each and twenty take 10s each. Otago Match, 800 and 900 yards.— £5, Storey (Napier), 96; £4, Sorenson (Newton), 94; £4, Henry (Opaki), 94; £3, Bulford (Karori), 94; £3, Clyde (Waikari), 93; £3, King (LinAvood), 93. Currie (Riversdale), Patrick (Auckland), Atkinson (Auckland), and Franklin (Weber) take £2 each Avith 93. Sixty take £1 each Avith scores ranging from 91 to 86. The riflemen despatched their day’s work at 8 o’clock in the morning to complete the final stages of the Auckland match (600 yards), and Otago match (800 yards), and to fire a couple of teams matches, sectional firing, at 500 and 600 yards, fen rounds at each range, and a rapid firing match, at 600 yards, ton shots. The first two matches finished four out of five matches from which the fifty highest aggregates are to be chosen for the champion belt. A blue sky, hot sun. and a smart breeze, mainly a few degrees to the left-rear, characterised the weather conditions, but some feature or other of them did not fit in Avith requirements of competitors for shooting avqs by no. means as brilliant as it had been on the previous four days. Tho Auckland and Otago matches final stages were fired simultaneously from the Collins, Somerville, and Seddon ranges, and were completed at 2 p.m. At the 600 yards range of the Auckland match no possibles Avere registered, and the match was won by James, of Napier, whose range score at each range was allhut, thus aggregating 98 —remarkably fine shooting. Dewar (Oamaru), Guy (Kaponga), and E. Shaw (Auckland) came next, eaclr with two points short of the winner. The tricky breeze made the shooting of some crack marksmen in and out. The same applies to tho shooting at the 900 yards range of the Otago match, won by S tor key (Napier), who put up -16 at this range and a possible at SOO yards —O6 in tho aggregate. Two possibles woe achieved at this range, Clyde (Waikari) and Maingay (Piako) being credited with them.

Guy (Nelson) has won the Union Company’s cup with a .general aggregate in the Auckland, Wellington, and Nelson matches of 2SO.

Extra Match (No. 7), 1000 yards.— 30s, McKnight (Maniatoto) 33: 30s, Don (Olmra) 33; 255. McCnrdle (Pahiatua), 33; 255, Harding (Masterton) 33. Rccd (Pongaroa), Wain (Studholme), -Stock /(Palfinerston North), and Duncan (Kaitangata) take 17s 6d each with 32. Three take 12s 6d with 31, six take 10s with 30, twelve take os with 29.

Teams Match (No. 13), sectional firing, 500 and 600 yards, ten rounds each range; prone position, rapid fjre. —£s; Timaru Port Guards, 106; £3, North Dunedin Rifles, 98; £2, Taranaki, 97; Waikato Mounted Rifles fourth.

Teams Match (No. 16), rapid firing, 600 yards, ten shots, sectional target, targets exposed 60 seconds. —£5, Victoria Rifles, 58; £3, Nelson Rifles, 55. with 26 on the “men” ;£l, Sounds Rifle Club 55, with 22 on the “men”; £l, Timaru 55, with 22 on the “men.” The aggregates of the champion matches are: Guy (Kaponga) 368, King (Linwood) 364, Patrick (Auckland) 363, Tarr (Iva-rori) 363, Soper (Tuamarina) 363, Sorensen (Auckland) 362. Ching (Lyttelton) 362, Shaw (Auckland) 362. Duncan (Millcrton) 361, Kells (Palmerston North) 361, Ching (Nelson) 359, Dodds (Port Chalmers) 385, Hollard (Hutt) 357, Mackay (Dunedin) 357,, Yates (Napier) 357, Loveday (Olmra) 356, Storkey (Napier)- 356, McConneTT (Christchurch) 356, Milroy (Nelson) 356, Hawthorn (Wellington) 356, White (Franklin) 356.. Wallace (Wai'lc-ato) 355, Halliday (Karon) 355, James (Napierj 354, Franklin (Weber) 354, M. Cox (Auckland) 353. THE GISBORNE TEAM. [Special to “Times.”] TRENTHAM, March- 9. The team competed in the Auckland match this morning. The following are the scores: Rait 90, Breingan 82,- McGuffio 82, Barney 74, Cannam 87, -Hingston 86, We also fired the last stage of the Otago match, and the wind played havoc with us, some of the team failing to hit the target at 800 yardh. We fired in two of the teams matches this afternoon, Nos. 13 and 15. In the first one, ton shots at 500 and 600 yards, we got eighth place with .92 hits, beating some of the crack rifle club and volunteer representatives. We did not faro so well in the second one, ten shots at 500 yards, only getting nineteenth -place, with 41 hits. Wo fire in the' last stage of the belt matches to-morrow, and hope to: get a lair share of the prize money. -The boys are still in good health, and well pleased with the scores made in the different matches, although they are not good enough to carry off first honors. 3