got underway for the season, and the Charlottetown Gun Club lost a valuable member when long-time Secretary/Treasurer Art Hogan, one of those credited with founding the Club, died accidentally in a fall from the fourth floor of the Royal York Hotel in Toronto while on a business trip with his brother. Although attendance was generally poor throughout the season, they did manage to shoot two evenings a week, and again, although poorly attended, the Provincial Championships were the biggest events of the summer, with Walter Carver taking the skeet title with a 46 X 50, and President Gil Houston, the trap with a 40.

Clay targets were now costing the Club $2.90 a case and an order for 50 cases was placed in late spring, with the balance required being picked up from Harold Arsenault in Summerside in five and ten case lots. The cost of a clay target ‘round' had been increased to $3.00, and the largest capital expense of the year was $7.48 paid to MacLean & Son Electric for some neoprene wire to repair a problem that had developed in the line to the high house on-field two.

Seven new members joined through the season but only one or two would have the enduring participation quality that the Club really needed; Terry Goodyear, an engineer from Newfoundland; Howard Douglas' brother Wallace; deep sea diver Gus Gallant; electrician Fred Andrews; former trapboy Earl Peters; rifleshooter Al Mutch and radio technician Douglas Wood.

The final shoot of the season was held on September 20th, when the Summerside Club was invited to visit. Indicative of local planning, halfway through the afternoon the target supply ran out necessitating Wallace Douglas to head for Charlottetown to pick up a few cases from the retail stock of Douglas Brothers & Jones. On December 26th a Boxing Day shoot was advertised and held, the first one in four years. However, a snow storm allowed only limited participation and the idea would be shelved for a number of years to come, as a bad gamble.

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