would be the return of trapshooting...not the single 
     
     station, simple form, that former clay target shooters 
     
     refused to change, but the long established clay 
     
     target game that had been withheld from these shores 
     
     for seventy years. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Charlottetown Skeet Club's annual meeting was 
     
     held on February 18th, 1950, in Ralph Jenkins' office 
     
     at the Royal Packing Company building located in the 
     
     centre of ‘dizzy block' (current site of the 
     
     Confederation Court Mall) and, apart from the normal 
     
     business, the main concern was what to do about 
     
     relocation. There were those who advocated the Club 
     
     purchase a property and establish a permanent skeet 
     
     field, and this was the route being discussed when 
     
     Wallace Rodd offered a portion of his property at 
     
     Winsloe...The Club would be welcomed to use it fora 
     
     nominal annual fee, like $1.00. He had the room, the 
     
     price was certainly right, and the members lost no 
     
     time in accepting it. Clay target shooting was going 
     
     back to Winsloe, and to within a few hundred yards of 
     
     both Newstead, and the Skeet Club established in 1936. 
     
     The meeting would also elect Dr. Gil Houston as the 
     
     Club's President, and it was obvious that his first 
     
     job would be to engineer the move from Squaw Point. 
     
    
   
   
    
     In 1950, the clay target itself would have an 
     
     added innovation. Since George Ligowski developed it, 
     
     in 1880, the clay pigeon had remained black, the ideal 
     
     color, supposedly, to pick out against the sky, and 
     
     for seventy years it had been accepted. Now, an idea 
     
     would give it a new image--a color--a yellow top that 
     
     would add 50% to its pick-up factor against a dark 
     
     background. It was an interesting concept, but one 
     
     that was not accepted immediately, and it would be 
     
     Many years before it would come to Prince Edward 
     
     Island. 
     
    
   
   
    
     With the Spring of 1950 came the Charlottetown 
     
     Skeet Club's move from Tea Hill to Winsloe, a 
     
     transition that would give the Club a new lease on 
     
     life, and establish it as a great place for a 
     
    
   
   
    
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