PIGEONS VERSUS TELEVISION
Pigeon racing in Belgium is a sport which is being seriously menaced by television. In several villages feuds have broken out between neighbours because prize birds have been injured through flying into the television aerials.
Many Belgian municipalities have now approved regulations banning television aerials unless the supporting cables have regularly spaced corks on them to warn the birds.
During the season, between April 1 and September 30. Belgian enthusiastssend their birds to France. Holland. Germany, Great Britain, Spain, Portugal and Luxembourg for release There are 284? clubs for pigeon racing in Belgium, with an estimated 3.576.346 pigeons. In Hoboken, near Antwerp, the owner of 200 pigeons recently sold them for about one million Belgian francs (about £9000).
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28128, 17 November 1956, Page 5
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