kept throughout the season, and, based on 15 targets, it was veteran gunner Eardley Hyndman who was club leader for the year, with an average of 11.5. Runner- up was Bill Rogers with 10.8, and third, with an even 10, was Al Hyndman.

There was some anticipation of activity in the fall of 1915, because the Club purchased 340 pounds of coal, and five barrels of targets, but the enthusiasm was gone. The few interested members left could not get even enough response to hold an annual meeting yet investment in coal and targets was not wasted. The coal, at $5.00 a ton, had only cost $1.20 and, with the targets, was gradually used up through the winter by the interested few.

The intensity of the war in Europe increased rapidly through the winter of 1915-1916, sporting ammunition became very difficult to obtain, and the gradual demise of the Newstead Gun Club became inevitable.

Whether or not the dollars promised by the Dominion Government, for the share of the bungalow Clubhouse at the Kensington Range, was ever paid is still one of the long lost mysteries in the story. The Provincial Rifle Association took over the complete building after the war, and operated it as headquarters until the organization moved to a new property at Squaw Point during the Second World War. The bungalow itself was almost impossible to move across the Hillsborough River, and was moved a short distance into St. Avards, now the village of Parkdale, where, today, it services the residents as the Lions Community Centre on First Street.

The introduction of organized clay target shooting to Prince Edward Island, and to Charlottetown in particular, had been an interesting exercise, and some of the personalities involved had begun a heritage of participation in the sport that is today reaching into the fourth and fifth generation. Many

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