PIGEON FLIGHT
-The Dunedin Homing Pigeon . Club concluded the old bird : season" with a •race', from Auckland, airline distance '7OO miles last week-end. It was a good 'endurance ‘test for the birds,"as .they had souther!v winds in the North Island. MrD.S. Adkins, of Reranera, liberated ”3 birds from 11. Ipfts, with the result that the winning bird flew the distance in 63h 4onrin. Only two birds came home in race tijne. liesuit';—R. Parker’s Blue Boy 11., 1; J. Hardgraves’ Full Sail, %' Birds entered by I) Murray, F. Jones,. A. Stevenson, til Tonks' J. Scoullar.' S. Lynn, Conley and Ranger, H. Millard, and J,. Still also flew.
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Evening Star, Issue 20057, 24 December 1928, Page 3
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106PIGEON FLIGHT Evening Star, Issue 20057, 24 December 1928, Page 3
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