Another meeting was held in late September, at 
     
     the office of President Hyndman, to make plans for the 
     
     Annual Meeting and to discuss decisions that would be 
     
     finalized at that time. A great deal of conversation 
     
     centered around a location for the Club to shoot during 
     
     the coming season. Inkerman was again considered, but 
     
     there was an element of feeling that the Club had 
     
     created somewhat of an imposition on the residents; 
     
     and Frank Heartz, currently Vice-President of the 
     
     Provincial Exhibition Association, suggested the Club 
     
     might have the use of the infield at the race track 
     
     for perhaps $25 a year, and the Club should write the 
     
     Secretary for more information. Other discussions 
     
     suggested the possibility of setting up an annual 
     
     membership dues requirement of $10; that the maximum 
     
     number of members in the Club be increased from 20 to 
     
     30; and that prices be obtained, as soon as possible, 
     
     for two new traps, which all felt were a serious 
     
     priority. Before adjournment, R. M. Steele was voted 
     
     in as a member of the Club. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Letters were sent immediately to Mr. C. R. 
     
     Smallwood, Secretary of the Exhibition Association, 
     
     concerning rental of their grounds, and to a variety 
     
     of suppliers seeking prices on new traps. Relative to 
     
     the latter, many letters were received in reply, basi- 
     
     cally involving two makes...Western, and the Leggett 
     
     ‘Expert.’ Both had their particular features, but the 
     
     best offer came from the Two Barkers, a merchandising 
     
     company in Amherst, Nova Scotia, that had supplied the 
     
     traps for both the Port Elgin and Amherst gun clubs. 
     
     Their price was right for their Leggett Trap, which, 
     
     as advertisements stated, could be operated easily by 
     
     a small boy trapping for five shooters. All of the 
     
     prices for traps would be looked at and a decision 
     
     made at the upcoming annual meeting. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Western Cartridge Company of Alton, Illinois, 
     
     was starting to move its products into Canada, 
     
     concentrating particularly on the clay target market, 
     
     currently dominated by 'Blue Rocks,' and home built 
     
     ‘Canadian Blackbirds.' Western targets carried the 
     
    
   
   
    
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