PIGEON RACING
.The.-Wellington Homing Pigeon Society .flew a. two-bird teams ■ race from the .National Park, 150 miles airline, during the weekend.' "The'pigeons' were liberated . by: the statidnrriaster. Th'e-'race' agairi proved a 'very..'hard test, and -not .many members 'clocked in both birds. ■.•■'••. • • ■■
-•The following -were the' members who. clocked, both birds, on day of liberation:—A:' Clements, 'two birds, average velocity .776 yards per minute, 1; F. Couper and Sons, two birds, average velocity '756 yards per minute, 2; Perkins ODea, two birds, average velocity, .706.5, yards, per minute,- 3; D. McDougall, two birds, average velocity, 705.8 yards per minute, 4.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 51, 2 March 1937, Page 15
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99PIGEON RACING Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 51, 2 March 1937, Page 15
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