PIGEON FLIGHTS
The Dunedin Homing Pigeon Club flew its opening race last Saturday from an interval race last Saturday from Oamaru, an airline distance ot liftyseven miles to the winner’s loft. It was a good day for flying, with just a slight head wind, and the winning birds put up a good fly. They were liberated at 1t'.35 pan. and timed in at 1.53 p.m., doing the distance in Ih ISmin, taking a trophy donated by Mr It. Stephen, of Cargill’s Corner. Mr T. George liberated seventeen pens from seventeen lofts, with the following results (in yards per minute) Conley and Ranger’s Eileen (1,285) I, W. Douglas’s Faithful (1,200) 2, S. Lynn’s Rampion (1,258) 3, L. Tonks’s Tinky (1,254) 4, J. Hargreaves Pink Note (1,246) 5. Birds entered by Messrs. A. Turnbull, J. Donaldson, C. Oliver, J. Still, D. Murray, A. Diehl, A. Stevenson, F. Jones, R. Parker, M. Ponsford, Kelly and Hargreaves, and J. Scoullar also flew. The club will fly from Timaru (108 miles) on Saturday.
The brigade turned out to a chimney fire in King street at 7, o’clock last evening
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Evening Star, Issue 19637, 17 August 1927, Page 8
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184PIGEON FLIGHTS Evening Star, Issue 19637, 17 August 1927, Page 8
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