Homing.
I For the Homing Club's Aramoho race on Thursday, March 2, forty birds, representing seven lofts,-com-peted. A lime liinfl of four hours was lixetl for the "H miles. The climatic conditions were most unfavourable, and Air C. Dixon was tho | only en'iiant tot'get a bird home in the time stipulated. The winner's time was 3 hours 53 minutes. I A race from Marlon, air-line distance 100 miles, was contested on .Thursday lust. Twenty-five birds, representing seven lofts, started, and ■as the weather was favourable good limes were recorded. The race resulted :. Air (J. A. Corney s Clivc 1 ; | time, ithrs ]min, velocity DToyds Jft I Tin per minute ; Air if. W. Dixon's Straybird 2, 3hrs 3Jmin, velocity jUeOyds ; Mr J. Lister's Currant 3, 3hrs 21min, velocity S7!)yds Oft lOin; |AIr C. Dixon's Choln 1 ; Ihrs llinin, velocity 705 yds.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7761, 13 March 1905, Page 2
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140Homing. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7761, 13 March 1905, Page 2
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