In mid December a meeting was held to solve the 
     
     Club's location problem. A number of the members had 
     
     suitable facilities, within a mile or so of the city 
     
     centre, but there was no offer heard from anyone to 
     
     open his home, and grounds, to gun club activ- 
     
     ities...all were well aware though, that if their club 
     
     was to continue, a shooting location would have to be 
     
     found. 
     
    
   
   
    
     John B. Andrews, a farmer who resided in East 
     
     Royalty, had accompanied a number of the members, from 
     
     time to time, on successful duck and goose shooting 
     
     expeditions on his property, which bordered on the 
     
     wildfowl bountiful Hillsborough River. He had 
     
     suggested to Teddy Coombs that the Newstead Gun Club 
     
     would be welcomed to make its headquarters at Belmont, 
     
     and the large and attractive home and grounds were too 
     
     good to resist. 
     
    
   
   
    
     A second meeting was held in late January at 
     
     Frank Heartz's beautiful home, Edgewater, on West 
     
     Street. Heartz had built the home in 1905, and it was 
     
     considered one of the most fashionable homes of the 
     
     day in the city. At Edgewater, Teddy Coombs lost no 
     
     time in conveying the offer of John Andrews, and it 
     
     took little time for the executive to accept. The 
     
     Newstead Gun Club planned its first serious competi- 
     
     tion at Belmont for Saturday, February 4th. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Belmont was situated on the large estate of 
     
     Benjamin Wright, about 2 1/2 miles from the city, in 
     
     East Royalty. The Kensington Road, leading east from 
     
     the city past the Provincial Exhibition Association 
     
     grounds, went directly to Belmont, the last 500 yards 
     
     through a beautiful avenue of overhanging oaks and 
     
     poplars. The homestead name was later changed to 
     
     Oakwood, and is still standing today in Hillsborough 
     
     Village, and if you drive out the Kensington Road 
     
     until you have to stop where it intersects Riverside 
     
     Drive, you can look straight ahead and still see the 
     
     Open avenue that used to be the roadway leading to the 
     
     house. If you seriously look for this you will find 
     
     the old avenue is much more visible when there is no 
     
    
   
   
    
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