attendance, only Glydon Willis (Runner up Class B skeet) and Ron Atkinson (winner Class C .410, and Class B 20 ga.) took home prizes. At the largely attended annual meeting they seriously discussed some sort of classification system for trapshooting to replace 'Lewis'; Charlottetown was awarded the 1956 Championships; and Islander Oliver Harper was elected president of the Maritime Trap and Skeet Association (M.T.S.A.).

In mid-September of 1955 the old benefactor of the Newstead Gun Club, Frank Heartz, passed away in Charlottetown in his 85th year. Two weeks later, the Charlottetown Club held its final shoot in this season of growth and expansion. Again this year it was billed as the Club Championship, and Glydon Willis-- concluding 1955 as the leading clay target shooter on the Island--won the skeet title with a 45, and the trap with a 41, on a windy, rainy Saturday afternoon. Willis was the highest Prince Edward Island gunner on the Maritime average lists with an .8720, placing him 16th out of a total of 277 registered shooters in 12 gauge skeet. The other Island gunners in the top 50 were yours truly in 18th place, and Bob Hyndman, 44th. Charlottetown had 34 registered members in the Association that included clubs from Saint John, St. George, Fredericton and Moncton in New Brunswick; and Halifax, Amherst, Truro, Yarmouth, Sydney, Dartmouth, and Kentville in Nova Scotia. The Summerside Club, with only five or six regular shooting members, continued to show little or no interest in the Maritime organization, or any of its campetitions.

The 1955 Annual Club Meeting was held on Saturday evening, December 3rd in the banquet room of the old Queen Hotel on Water Street (later destroyed by fire), where eighteen members and their wives enjoyed a fine meal in a Christmas atmosphere prior to club deliberations. The meeting was festive, not only because of the season, but because the Club was ata peak of both activity and enthusiasm. All committees reported, and Hugh Simpson's financial review was met with great applause when he reported that the Maritime

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