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SMAD. An Organ of Student Opinion. 1935. Volume 6. Number 18.

Defence Rifle Club. — Defence Rifle Club

Defence Rifle Club.
Defence Rifle Club.

The annual meeting of the Rifle Club was held on Tuesday last. It was not a night on which it was necessary to open the proceedings with a prayer for rain, and the attendance of thirteen was therefore regarded as doubly auspicious. The president, Mr. S. H. Perry, was in the chair. The meeting hall (Room A2) was panelled in white and tastefully furnised in mahogany. The annual report, when presented, proved to be unexampled in length, strength and thickness, and the decision to take it as read saved a lot of time.

Selwyn Perry, who was retiring from active participation in rifle shooting, had his misdeeds enumerated, and the meeting made an example of him by declaring him a Vice-patron. Executive officers to the usual number were elected. President, D. H. K. Ross; Deputy President, F. J. McWhinnie; Hon. Secretary, H. M. Sansum: Hon Treasurer, B. D. A. Greig. committee (after a slight tussle). H. J. Abraham and A. O. Gidall.

It was moved that the holder of the secretarial sinecure have his emolument increased by 20 per cent., but the proposal was dropped when the chairman pointed out that the emolument consisted wholly in kicks and halfpence (without the halfpence), and then the secretary announced that on this basis he considered himself already overpaid.

The club's constitution was amended in several respects. There was no opposition to the amendments once it had been made clear that they were "merely machinery clauses." Then somebody, evidently a peculiar person who contemplated sitting an examination, suggested opening the season on November 20, but the matter was left in the hands of the new committee after it had been gently pointed out that the day suggested was a Wednesday.

Finally, the chairman remembered that one of the club's trophies, the Mills bomb—sorry, the Mills Vase—was marked: "1935—J. H Croxton." He seemed to think that Crox should be allowed to look after this pot for a while, and, since nobody objected, the trophy was handed over.