Good Shooting In Fiji

rE Colony of Fiji maintains its high reputation in rifle-shooting, in the Inter-Colonial shooting competition in October, 1939, Fiji secured second place.

The Fiji Shooting Club got first place in the Dominions Club Match! This is regarded as a very fine achievement.

The following is from the “Fiji Times” of January 17:— This competition is fired at 25 yards range by six competitors from each club. Each com petitor is allowed ten shots and all scores count possible being 600.‘ In the 193S 1 shoot, four members of the Fiji team (Messrs. W. Wilder, A. G. Sahu Khan, Misses F. Wilder and l!

Wilder) all secured possibles, while Miss E.

Wilder and A. R. Sahu Khan scored 99 and 98 respectively, producing a total of 597. The club, by securing first place in the Empire,

thus wins the Dominion Silver Cup and six silver medals. It is interesting to note that in 1938 a team from the same club, consisting of Messrs. W. Wilder, N. Hiramatsu, A. G. Sahu Khan, H. Wilder, Misses L. Wilder and P.

Wilder, secured third place in the same com petition with a score of 595.

The Burns, Philp liner, “Merkur,” 5,952 tons, when on her way from Darwin to Sydney in very thick weather, with 70 passengers, ran aground on a coral reef off the coast of the Northern Territory.

The passengers were taken back to Darwin: but a couple of days later the “Merkur” was successfully pulled off the reef and returned to Darwin, appar ently unharmed, and picked up her passengers.