considered complete weatherproofing and insulation. 
     
     The Club obviously would have to wait a while for the 
     
     remaining dollars that were owed to the members who 
     
     had backed the project. 
     
    
   
   
    
     It was rather ironic but it was at this late 
     
     stage in the life of the Newstead Gun Club that the 
     
     first real attempts to shoot a form of conventional 
     
     trap were made. Throughout this season the Club would 
     
     shoot their competitions with targets on a 16-yard 
     
     rise, from three stations rather than the required 
     
     five. They were shooting five targets from each 
     
     station and were satisfied with 15 targets, rather 
     
     than the regular round of 25. The reason for the 
     
     accepted reduction is, no doubt, the habit that had 
     
     been established over the life of the Club. After 
     
     all, 15 targets was an increase over the 12 that had 
     
     been the standard for years...and 25 would be twice as 
     
     many aS normal. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The final shoot of the season was held on May 
     
     15th and along with the regular spoon competition, a 
     
     special handicap match was shot for a cigarette case 
     
     of sterling silver that had been donated by the Bank 
     
     of Nova Scotia through the local manager and club 
     
     member, Harry Binning. Another touch of irony 
     
     prevailed in this competition when, after hundred of 
     
     shoots, and many thousands of targets in the lifetime 
     
     of the Club, W. K. (Bill) Rogers became the second 
     
     gunner in the history of Island clay target com- 
     
     petition to break every target fired at. Only Sir 
     
     Louis Henry Davies had done it before, and that was 
     
     back in the days of the Belvidere Gun club. Rogers 
     
     won the silver cigarette case with fifteen straight, 
     
     and this would be the only time it would happen in the 
     
     Newstead Gun Club. Major Bill Weeks shot only in the 
     
     Heartz competition, and won it for the third, and what 
     
     would be the last time. The beautiful trophy would 
     
     remain in the possession of the Weeks family for many 
     
     years to come. 
     
    
   
   
    
     For the first time shooting averages had been 
     
    
   
   
    
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