major consideration, and the game of skeet was considered the perfect training ground. In 1941, following the Japanese strike at Pearl Harbour, the United States began a war that would prominently involve skeet shooting as a training medium. Complete fields were set up in every area of combat, many shipments of traps, targets, and ammunition were moved in; and it is a matter of record that many of today's veteran skeet enthusiasts, and top average shooters, had their first taste of skeet shooting on some isolated island in the South Pacific.

The long six-year seige, as it had 30 years before, took its toll in enthusiasm toward clay target shooting. As the war came to a close, another segment of memories, relating to the old Newstead days, was lost with the passing of two individuals who had played an important role in establishing the clay target game in Charlottetown. Within the span of one year the Peake brothers, Arthur and Ernest, had died.

A year after the war to end all wars was over, one of the potentials that might have helped skeet shooting reorganize in this area was taken away with the sudden, untimely passing of George Hardy. The man who had brought the game to Charlottetown, obviously distressed by some unknown turmoil, took his own life.

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