Smallwood, had ordered, and recently taken delivery of a rather expensive double barrelled Baker shotgun. In discussion with a local businessman, who shall go unnamed, Dr. Smallwood was teased about this 'easy' game, and challenged to a 12 target match with the new gun going to the winner. The businessman was not a clay target shooter, and suggested he would shoot at the dozen straightaway birds with his $4.98 H.&.R. Single. A number of members stood quietly under the Judges' Stand and watched the guest win by one target, 8 to 7, and take possession of the new gun. Dr. Smallwood reportedly left the field, never to re- turn...this story over the years may have become some- what distorted, but we do know that Dr. Smallwood did not rejoin the Club the following year.

Of interest to those who service and maintain clay target traps (and who realize the high cost of parts) is the fact that an order was placed in the spring for back-up parts for the club traps; 2 throwing arms, 4 mainspring eyes, 4 tension carriers, and an equal number of tension springs...at a total cost of $2.30...compare that to a similar order today!

In June, the third annual Maritime Trapshooting Championship was held in Amherst, Nova Scotia. With a world conflict near, the Maritime Association dis- banded shortly following this competition not to be reorganized for another seven years. Again, there were no Newstead members present...they were simply not interested. What they had developed a new in- terest in was the establishment of a clubhouse.

The Provincial Rifle Association had its shooting range at Kensington beach in the east end of the city. Kensington beach was a popular swimming spot at the time, located in the proximity of the present Irving Oil tank-farm and Island Fertilizers Limited. The shooting range, or 'butts,' as it was known, was east of the race track toward the river, and the Rifle Assoiation was getting ready to build a new bungalow for a clubhouse. They approached the Newstead Gun

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