HOMING PIGEON RACE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10512, 29 December 1911, Page 5

HOMING PIGEON RACE

FOR LADIES' BRACELET. The pigeon iiaqe fdr a ladies' teaoeilet in conneotioai'wiith. the Cale•tftaoian Sports in- Masterton on. New fear's Day ia beimg conducted on an original' plan. In 1 all' previous ladies'' brsicefet raoes the locaj racing pigeons have been'' used, amid oE COttrse the stiairb of Übe r»oe , was not witnessed by tihe interested, bod*bbs, far tlx© reasom that the birds we(re liberated' forty or fifty miUles from Miasrtertoii and raced bojne. This timei, however, the Caledonian Sociiety have obtained the use of the Wellington birds, seme 300 im number, whkfli will be liibar'ated in tine centre of tJKe Oval at 2.30 on day of the sports. Bach -bard vitfll fly i'Xj the-name of a liady who jmwfliases- a nomiuatcoiii for Is 1 , and it i® assured,! ' from the number already taten, thatj the full. number of. bi rdis tfiW • find 'fair nominators?. Njonrinlation tickets for this race may be had from tihV> following geDtlleineift:— Messrs F. B. RdSSon, J. Dixoaii, J. Ba-adlnn-y, orfrom the secretary (Mr W. GilItespJe). The gold bracelet for first prize amd two golid brooches foar second aaid thiir'd) respectively, are now on! view in Ma* A. Henderson's wiaitdow.