PIGEON FLYING

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22305, 20 January 1938, Page 14

PIGEON FLYING

EAST CHRISTCHURCH CLUB rinh e flPw St off hriS i tcilur S h Racin S Pigeon Club new off a long distance racp fmm Tolaga Bay last Saturday, when 26 birds were sent divided among eight ownerThe birds were liberated at 515 am in fine weather and a favourable wind which hj t 0 3 st i ong so uth-west wind as f tb ® b * rd i nea red the South Island Only two birds reached home on the dav of liberation with seconds dividing them The remainder timed in the following day' The winner was J. Pearce's bird Silver 0f g 472 miles 47 n20 WhiC a flew the distance sec. 472 1 1320 yards ln 14hr 36min 37

The following are the velocities-—J oio, otfo, j. hj. Beales No ifi* RQd« v> 506° r 6Bo'^J 'ft. 685 / No oud, DoU, J. Pearces No 92 rvq- d Moore’s No. 715, 550;