THE " SPECTATOR " TENT AT BISLEY.
[TO THE EDITOR OP THR spec-revile."
Sia,—Herewith I send a list of contributions to the tent generously furnished by your r•eader•s for our boys at Bisley in August. There remains only the small sum of 40s. to complete the "Spectator Tent." * Lor•d Roberts tells me that he particularly desires to witness the shooting of the England team for his trophy in August. He will not be home again from Canada until August 29th, and if this wish is to be fulfilled we shall need generous support in order to carry on the extra period of training. We need ten thousand rounds of •303 ammunition and help for target rent and instructors. I am now receiving from the oversew dominions their results in this great Imperial contest (" Roberts Trophy") for British schoolboy marksmen, and it is clear that in order to win the trophy our English team will have to improve upon the fine score made by Harrow in the battle of the Ashburton Shield on July 16th at Risley. I do not think I am giving away any Staats-Geheimniss if I say that the average age of the Colonial team with this fine score is well under fifteen years of age I If sufficient practice can be obtained for our boys, we ought • A Spectator Tent at Maley (August 8th-17th) houses twenty boys sad costs 818.
to make a good fight for the trophy in this its first year for
competition.—I am, Sir, 8t.c., REGINALD J. E. HANSON, M.A. Cantab., R.N.V.R., Hon. Sec., "Lord Roberts's Boys."
42 Sun Street, London, E.C.
P.S.—I have received £50 from the Grocers' Company ; £21 from the Drapers' Company ; £16 from the proprietors
of the Daily Telegraph ; £16 from the proprietors of the Daily Mail; but am still £150 short of the sum necessary for
our camp this August.
"SPECTATOR" TENT, Ale.
LIST OP SUBSCRIBERS, 1908.
A B. d.
Mrs. A. M. Drew (second 100 J. St. Loe Strachey (second 5 15 0 Mrs. Pochin 0 5 0
Mrs. Godfrey Wedgwood ... 3 3 0
Imperial Colonial Club ... 1 1 0 General W. M. Campbell Dr. Cory (Shore) J. B. Wood, Esq. R. J. E. Hanson 0 0 1 0 s. d 10 0 16 0 0 0 10 0 Alk 0 0
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