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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 4, 4 December 1931, Page 7

The pigeon post is still an institution of considerable value to sQme outlying parts of the Dominion, especially at election times, when the rapid delivery of. returns must be arranged for independently of telegraph or telephone. At the 1928 Maori elections pigeons were employed in making the returns from Motiti Island, in the Bay of Plenty, available to the returning officer at Gis-' borne, Mr J. Harvey, who on that occasion dispatched a pair of his own homers to the island and after the close of the poll had the returns delivered to his own loft in Gisborne. Wednesday’s returns were also received on the mainland by pigeon post. J}y special arrangement, lleuter's world, service, in addition ti other special sources of information, is used in the compilation of the overseas intelligence published in this issue, and all rights therein in \ralia and. If etc Zealand are. reserved* ■