THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF RIFLE-SHOOTING.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.")
SIR,—Referring to your remarks in last week's Spectator in regard to the importance of encouraging rifle-shooting, I am afraid that many men who are hard at work all the week will not devote their Saturday afternoons to rifle practice, and I therefore suggest that facilities should be given by Govern. ment for the use of their ranges on Sunday afternoons, say from two o'clock to six o'clock. By thus utilising the ranges the number of men that they could accommodate would be enormously increased. Anybody who realises how the lack of definite occupation on Sunday afternoons leads to mischief of all kinds will, I venture to hope, approve of the above suggestion.—I am, Sir, &c., ARTHUR B. RECKITT. Beverley.
[We agree with our correspondent and hold that the ranges should be open on Sunday afternoons. To learn the use of the rifle is a far better Sunday occupation than lounging in or outside the public-house.—Ed. Spectator.]
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