PIGEON-FLYING MATCH.
The Northern Racing? Pigeon Club opened ' its 1917 old-bird programme with p, race I from Frankton on Saturday. The weather | conditions were excellent, and the birds put up a good performance. Mr. Stowell liber- ' ated . the _ birds _at 12 o'clock sharp, the ' winning bud arming home at 1.41, making < a- velocity of 1181 yds a minute. Seventy. 1 four birds, from eight lofts, competed. The I following We the results:—Mr Cowsill'n .Disaster, lh 41m (velocity 1184 yds), 1Mr, Cowsill, Epsom Lad, lh 42m 19s (1177) ' 2: Mr. Hughes's Sarawa. lh 4Sm 10s (lift?! c 8; Mr. Billing's Electric, lh 47m 27b (11661 4: Mr. Spinley's Wmt-a-Bit. lh 45m 41 a J
(1159), 6; Mr. Watson's Hesitate, lh 45m STa (1156), 6 Mr. Edwards's Correla, lh 51m 49q (U2O) 8' r " ay ' or ' 8 aster Hampton, — Kuiti 1 aturday thfl 1000 oillt will bo To »w .
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16671, 16 October 1917, Page 6
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