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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