spectators, at their functions, unless they were 
     
     previously approved. Their status, and way of life, 
     
     was evident at their Saturday competitions, where, in 
     
     most cases, white shirt and tie was the accepted 
     
     shooting attire. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     NEWSTEAD GUN CLUB LETTERWEAD.... 
     
    
   
   
    
     An effort to find a shooting area, for the winter 
     
     of 1912, not too far out of town, was successful when, 
     
     in a casual discussion concerning the problem, city 
     
     businessman, Gordon G. Hughes, suggested the 
     
     facilities at Inkerman might be available for an 
     
     annual fee of $25.00. It was almost thirty years 
     
     Since this stately home, with cottage and stables, had 
     
     been suggested as an area where clay target shooting 
     
     might be held, and this time the Club took advantage 
     
     of the offer. Inkerman had been built by John 
     
     Hamilton Gray, who had named it for the Battle of 
     
     Inkerman in the Crimean War. It was located just west 
     
     of the city on the North River and accessible down a 
     
     beautiful elm lined lane off the Lower Malpeque road. 
     
     The old home was destroyed by fire in the winter of 
     
     1980, and, being only fifty yards from my home, I 
     
     watched it burn, little realizing the Island 
     
     trapshooting heritage that was going with it. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Gun Club had been buying targets by the 
     
     barrel of 500 from the Hall Manufacturing Club in 
     
     Summerside, through the Summerside Rifle Association, 
     
     for the past couple of years, but conversations with 
     
     individuals from other Maritime Clubs indicated that 
     
    
   
   
    
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