brand name 'White Flyer,' and an extensive advertising 
     
     programme stated: "We claim to make targets that are 
     
     perfect trappers and perfect breakers." Western ammu- 
     
     nition had already made the grade in Canada, but 
     
     White Flyer' targets would have a tougher road. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Along with traps, the Club also required clay 
     
     targets, and, following more price quotations, 10 
     
     barrels, or 5000 targets, were purchased directly from 
     
     Nelson Long in Hamilton, Ontario, for twenty four 
     
     dollars. It is interesting to note that the freight 
     
     costs in 1912 on these ten barrels amounted to 
     
     fourteen dollars, which is almost 60% of the cost of 
     
     the targets themselves. Today, if we pay 10-15% for 
     
     freight we consider it excessive. Another point on 
     
     this transaction that may be of interest is that the 
     
     cheque issued by the Club to cover the freight 
     
     charges, and drawn on the Bank of Nova Scotia in 
     
     Charlottetown, is made payable to simply, "Freight on 
     
     Birds, Hamilton," and cashed by the Receiver General 
     
     of Canada with the endorsement of an officer of the 
     
     P.E.I. Railway--indicating that, at this stage in 
     
     time, the railway on Prince Edward Island was operated 
     
     directly by the Federal Government in Ottawa. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Club continued to use 'Canadian Blackbird' 
     
     targets in preference to the internationally renowned 
     
     "Blue Rocks,' which were readily available, and more 
     
     popular, in other parts of the Maritime Provinces, 
     
     especially in the Halifax and Saint John areas, where 
     
     major hardware distributors imported them. Costs as 
     
     far as we can understand were not that different, and 
     
     "Blue Rocks' certainly had the world-wide reputation. 
     
     But there is some evidence that the Newstead Gun Club 
     
     “ was more in favor of supporting Canadian products and 
     
     made a continuous effort to purchase, whenever 
     
     possible, Nelson Long's reliable targets. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The annual meeting was held on October 19th, and 
     
     in the absence of both President Hyndman and Vice- 
     
     President Heartz, Ted Coombs was approved to take the 
     
     chair. Fred Hyndman had not been well and Frank 
     
    
   
   
    
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