PIGEON RACING
The Dunedin Homing Pigeon Club flew a flock race from Christchurch on Saturday. Mr D. Cunningham liberated 177 birds, representing 18 lofts, in overcast weather and a south-west wind. The winning bird flew the 200 miles in 5h 23min, at a velocity of 1,101 yards per minute. The results were:—H. Millard’s Last Blue 1, W. Hargreaves’s Leith Nola and J. Ramsay’s Boon Pride (equal) 2, L. Tonks’s Hyde Lady 4, M. Anderson’s Hill Gera 5.
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Evening Star, Issue 23688, 23 September 1940, Page 10
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77PIGEON RACING Evening Star, Issue 23688, 23 September 1940, Page 10
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