Joining the club through the winter were Captain Ernest DeBlois Peake, who was a local militia officer, and a brother of Major Arthur Peake; Major J. A. (Jack) MacDonald, a teacher at Prince of Wales College and also the resident Commander of the P.E.I. Lighthorse Regiment; Alexander William (Al) Hyndman, a nephew of Fred W., and local Manager of the Royal Bank of Canada; and Justice Louis G. Haszard of the Supreme Court, a brother-in-law of Al Hyndman and son of Francis Haszard, who, as much as anyone, was responsible for the decade of success enjoyed by the first clay target club. Lou Haszard almost immediately took over the duties of Secretary/Treasu- rer from a very busy Arthur Peake.

From the selection of members it was evident that the Club was establishing a standard that placed it high in the Charlottetown social strata of the time. Following the voting and acceptance of the new mem- bers, the club executive presented, and had approved, a motion limiting membership in the Newstead Gun Club to twenty persons...In late April it stood at four- teen.

The Club was still new, and meeting together to shoot clay pigeons every third week or so throughout the winter and spring of 1910. Those who participated enjoyed the outings, but the attendance was not what it should be. Very few automobiles were available and Newstead was almost five miles from Charlottetown, which was quite a trip by horse and sleigh ona cold winter's day. On some Saturdays, members wold take the morning train from Charlottetown to Winsloe Station and, following the day's outing, return home on the evening train. This distance problem was the basic contributor to the declining attendance, which, by spring, would lead to some petty personal feelings that were destined to create a rather touchy situation for the directors of the club to deal with.

John Morris, the host member of Newstead took quite personally the fact that a number of members did not show up regularly to enjoy his hospitality. As

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