PIGEON FLYING
RACE FROM PORO-O-TARAO
The Onehunga Pigeon Club s first race from Poro-o-tarao (airline 115 miles) as won by Mr. A. Langton’s j b h Resolute, with a velocity of 1,462 j yards a minute Mr. F. Wilson’s r c Goshawk (1,444 yards) second; Mr. W. Leng’s b c c Bonny Doreen (1,416 ; yards) third.
The Hamilton Pigeon Club’s young i bird race from Ohakune, in which 40 ; birds competed, was won by Mr. C. j Glover’s The Orphan, with a velocity j of 1,440 yards a minute; Mr. H. Jury’s : Hippwell’s Lass (1,426.5 yards) second: Mr. E. Hopkins’s Xo. 273 (1,426.3 yards) third.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 290, 28 February 1928, Page 11
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105PIGEON FLYING Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 290, 28 February 1928, Page 11
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