PIGEON RACING
;■■ .-j-TJie.'- Welliugton'-Homing; Pigeon Society: held ,an interval race from Wai-! buru.':;.(-13.4 'miles air line) during. the' week-end. Twenty lofts'were, each re-; preseute.d; by one bird. A really goocV race-..resulted in another win for W. Thomas,"his third in succession. The* positions-were as follow:—W. Thomas's black, chuhen Repetition, 153 —1928, 4hr 23min 18sec,T; E.-Lanib'a blue eh hen! .243-—1928, :;4h"r 3b'miu 2(iscc, 2; H. Mur-phy's'blue-cock 610—1925, 4Jir 54uiin' '28s.ee, 3;/Ferret and Gaison's blue: eh -heri'llßs-^i928,-shr lm in 20sec, 4; Balneavis.'s blue eh hen 117—1928, shr 14. rhin-27sec, 5;. Marple and Sou's blue eh cock,-s—-1928, shr >13min,26sec, 6.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 56, 9 March 1929, Page 17
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96PIGEON RACING Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 56, 9 March 1929, Page 17
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