HOMING PIGEONS’ RACE
j Hard Flight from Helensville ■ ?■ The Wellington Homing Pigeon Socitely held 11 teams’ race of two pigeons per '.member from IlelensviJle, 335 miles airline. Both birds had to be timed in, and ‘/the average velocity of both was taken. Owing to a delay in transit to liberation point, the birds were not liberated until ■9.50 ii.ni., and, having southerly wind* ■and rain to contend with, found the race a very hard one. The foliowing are tne plaeing.s of members who timed in two birds in race limits:— f, Couper and Son’s Jimmy's Gift and Venns, I2hr. Iniin. 17see. A. Croskery and Son’s Lyall Spray and j Lyall Breeze. 12hr. 3niin. 4Gsec. ■C. Haines’s Blue Peter and Buller Lad, IBhr. 55niin. llsec. B. Clements’s Clematis and Lofty, 14hrs. *'• 50min. 50sec. C; Egginion’s Newtown Lad and Clarrie, 15hr. 4Gmin. 28sec. J. Perrett’s Consistent and Cayenne. 16 hr. 27niin. 17sec.
England’s largest carillon,' consisting, of 23 bells, is installed on a private estate near Chobham, Surrey. .
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 70, 15 December 1933, Page 19
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