RAPID STRIDES MADE
Hong Kong Rifle Association
The Hong Kong Rifle Asscelation has issued their lates: Bulletin which contains plenty of useful in Tormation dealing with shooting und other matters. Scores etc., of previous shoots are also included. On reading the Bulletin one is struck by the remarkable progress nade, by the Association since 1 inception hardly a year ago and the keen interest taken by His Ex- cellency the Governor, Sir Andrew Caldecott, is evinced by his donat- ng a special trophy to the, Asso- diation.
The progress which has been made will be clearly scen in the following extracts from the Bune-
in:
It may not be out of place if w invite our readers, by means oij this article, to pause for a while and to consider what has hap- pened, and how the Association has fared, since the inaugural meet-" ing held on June 4th of last year. approximately nine months
ago. At that meeting, as those present will well remember, à scheme was propounded, which in some quar- ters, was regarded as being, if any- thing, too ambitious for a Colony
BULLY JAILED
Lived On Earnings.. Of A Waitress
Charged With assaulting д wallgess, Wong Sze-mul in Spring Garden Lane on Thursday, Kui Shul kang. 2 Sharghal Chinese unemployed was sentenced to two months hard labour, when he ap- peared before Mr. W. Schofield at
The Central Magistracy yesterday.
During the course of the prose- cuting officer's outline of the case. defendant W13 described as 1 bully,
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS,
WEEK-END SOCCER
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Division 2
Royal Navy v. East Lanes:, N 1. Referee: J. H. Lawrencė.
Radio v. China Athletic Assoen.
V 1. Referee: T. Casson
Club de Recreio v. R.U.R., XP 2
Referee: H. Martin.
·R.AS.C. & R.A.O.C. v. Kowloon, C1. Referee: H. K. Ip.
Hong Kong Club y University. H1. Referee: R. Chapman.
8.CA.A. Y. R.W.F., CH 1.
Re
L'ga. K 1.
Division 3.
Polce (Chinese) ✡. Referee: J. Bulterworth.
R.E v. E. Lancš., M 1. Referee: D. T. Smith.
R.W.F. v. Railway" P 1. Referee:
Richardson.
St. Joseph's "v. R.U.R., J. 1 teree: D: W. Ellis.
Re-
SUNDAY, MARCH 15, Junior Shield-Final R.E. y. E. Lancs.. H 1,15. feree: A. E. Sidebottom. Lines- men: A. J. Stockbridge and J. V. Gomes.
Detective-Sergeant D Fitches who prosecuted, stated that hoout feree: R. M Omar. aud-day on Thursday. Sergeant Galvin was attracted by a com.. motion in Spring Garden Lane. He saw a crowd gathered, around the defendant who Wis holding the complainant by her dress. near her throat The complainant was crying. Both" were taken to the Wanchai Police Station, where when enquiries were being made, it was found that the complainant was employed as a waitress in a to house In Wanchal. Eight months ago the defendant used to visit the tea house and they felt In love with each other and then lived together. The defendant had work at the time, but during the eight, months they lived together he made her go to work and beat her several times He had been unemployed for the past two months, and lived on her money. The complainant left him about twenty days ago, but he refused to let her have her clothing and. full members property, and visited her at the As... regards tea house dally, demanding her Is not with- woges. She earned sixty cents recall that at day and also made money on Wips. meeting of the Council held on He also demanded that she come July 29th lust, a statement was and live with him. made that it seemed likely th In connection with the present by the end of the year, the num case, trouble arose when dofen- ber of individual full. members dant demanded mor.cy. from would be over 200, and that the her and he was alleged to have membership of affated rifle slapped her on the face several clubs
would be somewhere he times. Defendant was a bully. tween 3,000 and 4.000. And what and was one of a number of has actually been the results.
this size. However, ir Was adopted. more or less as a whole, and at a special General Meeting held on June 19th, the first batch of applications fot enrolment FLS Individual WIS received. membership. it out interest to
Shanghal men who were making a
regards membership? The answerving on these girls.
Is that by the end of June, the Individual full membership num bered 26; by the end of July. 100 by the end of August, 135; by the end of September, 204; by the cad 0 January, 270: and by the end of February, 313, white the afiliat- cd membership, at the moment, is weli over 4,000.
TO SERVE TERM
S.x weeks hard labour was im posed on LI Yun (48), J the Central Magistracy yesterday when he appeared before Mr. W. Scho field on a charge of lareny of two brass cooking vessels the property of Chan Yat;
195 As regards other matters affect-
Queen's Road West. Follow- ing the Association, we wou'd
ing the conviction. the point out that since practice on
cused. was brought up again on a the range commenced on Septem-charge of returning to the Colony ber 18th last, shooting has been possible on 42 occasions, at which over 150 silver spoons have been awarded. and which have been attended by over 2,000 members.
COLONIAL MATCH.
On the last day of last year, the Association for the first-time, un- tered a team. representing the Colony, to shoot for the Overseas Match, organised and held by our parent-body. the National Rifle Association. The team was heav- ily handicapped in that the "1914" rifles bud arr.ved in the Colony only a few days before the match was to be ared, but in spite of this the aggregate amounted to 1.071 points, a very fine effort and one which. few. If any, thought would be reached.
· PUBLICATIONS.
In other directions, our activit- les proceed unchecked; our Score Book has been published and is in Use by the majority of our mem. bers, our Year-Book is now in the hands of the printers, and will be pubished very shortly, while
by the time. this article.ls being read by our readers, the Programme of
forthcoming
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the
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before the expiration of a banish- ment order. The defendant was committed to stand his trial at the next sessions.
would-be competitors, to sach a degree that 18 members only ap- peared on the firing-point! When It is remembered that the Asso- clation has to pay a subsidy for the special buses which convey members to and from the near- est point to the ranges, and that each target requires two markers. it wil be seen that" much needless and wastefu expenditure is incur red, which could, and show'd be casily avoidable.
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REVOLVER SHOOTING, Nor have the claims of those of volver-shooting. been overlooked; our members who are keen on re-i
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Division 2 Univers.ty v. Eastern. CH 1. Referee: Sgt. E. G. Isley.
SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1936.
STEEL-COULSON
BILLIARDS
Champions Versus
The Rest
:"
FERRY SERVICES
DELAYED
The Fog Menace
the harbour some twenty minutes after noon yesterday.
The smooth working of the ferry The Champlons versus The Rest services across the harbour, was match in the Steel & Coulson's temporarily disorganised by the League will take place on Wednes-heavy fog that thicky enveloped day next at the Dockyard Recrea tiori Club commencing at 7.30 p.m. All interested are invited to at tend.
The Catholic Union Club team will be selected from:-A. P. Pereira, Jnr. M. M. Silva. T. F. Jordan, L. P. Antonio, D. Montalto and R. G. Xavier.
The following will represent the Rest:-M. N. Rakusen (Civil Ber- vice C.C.) (Captain), QMS. H. Staples (RE. Sergts.), G. Pile (Prison Officers Mess), S/Condr. Andrews (Garrison Sergis.), A. Lewis (Dockyard R.C.),
Referee:-W. F. Stafford (Royal Naval Yard Police).
80.00
INDIVIDUAL AVERAGES »
P. W. L. Percent. Re-F A. GI, C.U.C... 12 10 2 83.33
A P. Pereira,
CU.C. 11 9 2 81.62 M. M. Silva, C.U.C. 11 9 2 81.82 N. M" Rakusen, Senior Shield-Final
CS.C.. 16 13 3 81.25 South China "A" v. Police RC. A. Andrews, H 2 4.00. Referee: E E, Randafl.
G.S.M. 16 13 3" 81.25 Linesmen R. Chapman and W. C.
C. Pile, Twaites.
Prison Officers 15 12 3 H Staples, R.E.... 15 12 3 80.00 U. A. Santos,
C.U.C. 10 8 2 80.00 W. Stafford,
R.NY.P. 15 11 4 73.33 L. V. Antonio,
C.U.C. 10 7 3 70.00
CU.C. 10 7 3 70.00 R. P. Phillips,
C.3.C.C. 16 11 "5
68.75 Russell, GSM.... 18 11 5 68.75 T. Pile.
Prison Officers 13 9 4 68.23 Lewis, D.R.C... 15 10 5 66.67 J E. Macgowan,
C.8.C.C. 14 9 5 64.29 Newnham, D.R.C. 18 10 6 02,50
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, Division 1.
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Royal Navy v Royal Artillery! (D), N 2. Referee: R. M. Omar. T, F. Jordan, Linesmen:, C. Mason and R. T. Evans.
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Division 2.
S.C.A.A. V. University, CH 2. Referee: S. MacCarmae.
THE TEAMS
The following are some of the Dr. G. I. Shaw. probable line-ups.
and C. Pile: North, Gough and Police: McHardy; Blackburn
Parker T. Pile, Stevens, Johnsón, Brooks and Moss.
Tin-sang and Tam Kong-pak; Lau 5. China "A":-Wong Wing: Li
Hing-chol, Leung Wing-chul, and Lee Kwok-wat; Tso Kwai-shing, Fung King-cheung, Lee Wal-tong. Ip Pak-wa and Tay. Qua-liang.
Club:-Rodger; Gamble and 8. Strange; Drown, Forrow and E. Strange; Fowler, Pearce, Elliot, Wilson and Bickford.
The S. China "B" team will be selected from the follow ing: Wong Wah-hing: Leung In-chan and Yu Hing-yuen; George Tsang. Yeung Wab-chun, Lam Tak-po, and Henry Young: ip Ng-po Lai Shul-wing, Ho Ka- keung, Cheuk Shek-kam, Wong Chun-hung and Yeung Shui-yick.
Eastman; Roberts, Bliss and Boyd; Kowloon:-Boyes; Everest and
w. Knox, G. White, D-Knox, V. white and Honniball.
J. Recrelo:-I. Fernandes; E, Silva and J. Bowen: N. Delgado, N. Beltraö and W. Maher: T. Castilho, J. Gomes, H. Campos, A. Alves and J. Alves.
a first-class range has been con- H. K. RIFLE ASSOCIATION structed on the site of the old one at Kowloon City and practices wil start thereon within the next Iew days
So Prize-Meeting
THE FUTURE much for what has been will have been arawn up by the ecleved during the past ftw Committee appointed for the pur- months, as we have already sald pose, and should also be shortly it is not a bad thing, now
and hands of would-be competi-again, to sit back for a short while and to consider where we, as an Association, stand; what we have The Blazer Badge has been de-accomplished, and what yit re- signed and approved by the Coun- mains to be done. Apart from the cil, and is now on sale in gold and Prize Meeting, which is to be he'd while this Journal; thanks from April 29th to May 4th, there
tors.
BLAZER BADGE.
our
In view of the Naval Range at Stonecutters. Island being required by the Royal Navy and Volunteers during the week-end, the usual Spoon and Practice Shoot will not be held by the Hong Kong Rifle Association.
GENERAL SIR- DAVIE CAMPBELL PASSES
to the support of our good friends is no room for douot that our
London, Mar, 12. who have been kind enough in chief 'aim and object must be the
The death has occurred of Cen- advertise in lis pages, is showing speedy rection of our Clubhouse, eral Sir David Campbell, former Bufficient profit to defray the project which the War Office, are
Governor of Malta, from which somewhat heavy financial liability backing up in a most friendly post he recently retired owing to ies which have, perforce, to be in- way.
-health, and which he had held curred in connection with
To the times in which we now since 1931. weekly shoots! In regard to this, live, it becomes increasingly on- General Campbell served in the we would make a special, and sin-vious that one either progressca or South African War and in the cere, appeal for greater- help on loses ground; the time for resting Great War. In the latter, he first- the part of those who use the on one's laurels has gone for good, I had command of the 9th Lancers ranges weekly, as regards the fore- and it is because this fact is re-and then of a cavalry brigade of cast on the day preceding such cognised that every effort is being the 31st Division." He was award- shoots, of the number who will be made for the Association to sended many honours, British and for- attending. For example, un one team this year, representing the eign. He was G.O.C., Baluchistan occasion recently, 37 names were Colony, to one of the Dominion or | District, from 1920 to 1924, Milltary received by the Honorary Becret- Colonial Rifle Meetings and next Becretary of the Secretary of State ary on the Tuesday as being like-year, to the Mother Country, so for War from 1926 to 1927, and ly to atting the shoot on the fol- that Hong Kong. In the Joyous 0.0.0. Aldershot Command from i lowing day, whereas 38 meinbera period of the Coronation of our 1927 to 1931. He was formerly as turned up! A week later, some 50 King. may for the first time be prominent rider, having ridden mes were received for the found competing, in friendly Winners in many races, including shooting next day, but heavy rain. rivalry, on Bisley Common, with the Liverpool Grand National, and: ine the morning apparently other. Colonies and Dependencies the Tish National Hunt Cuple; "put the wind up' many of the of the Empire.
Heuter's 'Bulletin Service.
Prison Officers 16 10 6 62.50 N. Hill,
Frison Officers 16 10 6 82.50
It was almost 1 pm before the fog bank lifted, when much to the amusement of a large, crowd of office workers released for the tiffin hour that had congested the Hong Kong wharf, two ferry boats were seen in close proximity of Each other opposite the pier.
Another vessel when first sight- ed. was cruising in the vicinity of the naval yard property, nearly half a mile out of its course.
Some of the crowd on the wharf had arrived shortly after 12.30 put it was not un: 12.50 that they were able to board a vessel for the mainland,
A launch that left the "Hong Kong side at 12.30 actually took half art hour in crossing. A liner leaving port forced the ferry to steer towards Holt's Wharf, where the coxswain temporarily lost his bearings. Those who boarded the ferry at 12.50 arrived at Kowloon just as the "last" boat was making her way alongside. the two landing stages at Kowloon being utilised.
had Visibility
cleared appre- clably by one o'clock, and
the normal time table was then ad- hered to with the least possible delay. A strong wind that aprang up was responsible for improving the visibility-at least in the lower levels
A passenger crossing the har- hour after having had his lunch, was heard to observe. weather."
Harris, R.E. Hodges, RE,
A. W. Grimmett,
this
13 8 5 61,53 12 7 5 38.33
C.5.0.0, 109 7 56.25" Ash, D.R.C. 16 9 7 38.25 Marsh, D.R.C... 13 7 6 53.85
To qualify for the above average, one must have '50 per cent or over, for a minimum of 10 games played.
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