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practice. This will prevent any luck as to selection and will ensure 
the layers being employed with their own sub-divisions. 
T am aware that this arrangement necessitates the production of only 
8 gun-layers for the Competitive, but a commanding officer would have 
to keep up at least 4 or 5 more in reserve in case of casualties among 
his 8 best. 
Differences in local conditions would probably necessitate the Competition 
biennial competition for the D.-A.-G.’s cup being confined to one day’s © pin ** 
practice only, still this need not interfere with the adoption of the 
methods I have suggested for the group prizes. 
