THE PIGEON'S FLIGHT.
(To the Editor.) Sir, —I am afraid that the velocities of 1782 yards per minute and 1827 yards per minute accomplished by the racing pigeons owned by your correspondents Mr. C. E. Eccles and another (see Tuesday\a "Star"), arc both far from being world's records. Velocities of 2,000 yarde per minute are by no means unknown in England and Australia, where climatic and physical conditions are more conducive to fast flying, although the birds are by no means the superior of ours. But even in Australia there has been, no performance approaching that 1 of Mr. J. A. Bock's blue chequer cock, Marvel, which flew from Dunedin to Auckland (685 miles) in 15 hours 45 minutes in 1916, at three yeara old.—l am, etc., R. E. HUNTER.
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Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 213, 7 September 1921, Page 6
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