PIGEON FLYING.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20412, 5 December 1931, Page 19

PIGEON FLYING.

/CANTfiKBURy-'GIAjB.;:: .. ; The Canterbury. Pigeon I'lyiug <«ftntiv flow off » race from £ori*ua, A j o jai of 207 birds: wars Bent, dlvi /®f, ( , B (I mo the owners. The loft# ware divided into we two sections. east and west. birds we Hhonted by Dr. Marshall at O.SO a.m.,. 'J 1 fine weather, with a st>ron« lour'which prevailed throughout the whole jour nev. Ths birds put up fairly times, very little dividing the prise-winners. The. win nor vent to a western loft, 11. Bxowmng s bird, No. 488, which traversed the d*" 4 "";® o£ 211 miles 684 yards air-lme In ohrs 21min 67sco. . The following are velocities recorded by each owner's bird:—

WESTERN SECTION. Yards H. Browning's No. 488 . A. 0. McKUlop's No. 40.9 F. Chambers's No. 273 51. Brown's unrung P. Dunne's No, 350 H. Rule's No. 424 A. Stone's No. 404 . , K. French' 8,^'No. 88-1 V W. Hobertson's No. 2G3 W. Unwin's No. 835 11. Spent er'8 No, 753 . . W. G. Clark's No. 220 Marjfetts and Son's No.> 248 J. A. Luke's No. 13B0 tier min. . 1155 . 1148 . 1145 . 1126 . llll . 1111 . 1107 . 1102 . 1009 . - 1068 *' . 1085 . 1080 . 1038 \ . 828 EASTERN SECTION , Yards • per win-. G. Anderson's No. .543 . < 1151 •F. Kmsrsterd's No.,6636 .. JJff . C/Martin's No. 1058 . , .. Uol G. Robertson'* No. 71 ..1128 A. Buckley's Nd. 828 .. 1116 B. Moore's unrung .. 1082- ■■ - F, Kingsford wins the nominated bird prize-