HOMING
KAST KXD CIA'IS. I The Xcw Plymouth Kast End Hying I Club held a lloek race from Wellington I on Thursday. The birds wore liberated at 8 a.m.. and word was received that a strong head wind was' blowing at the time of liberation. This prevailed during the whole of the journey, a p ul mitigated against fast times being recorded. The air-line measurement is 183 miles, aud the first four birds that timed in kept well -together, only tifty* (Seconds separating the first 'and fourth placed birds. Thirty-live bird*, representing eight lofts, competed, with the following result:—A. Lovcgroves j N'igger, (ihrs. liOsee., Ist; W. H. I'oulton's Shamrock, lihrs. ;Wmin. lOsee., 2nd; l\ Wright's Mars, bins. UOmii. 20 sec., Drd; 11. -I. Moverley's Kob Hoy. Ohrs. 3(imin. 2150e., 4th.
Tlie club's second hamper containing thirty birds was trained to Wellington yesterday.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 210, 9 October 1909, Page 6
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142HOMING Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 210, 9 October 1909, Page 6
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