PIGEON RACING
Onohunga Club.—The club's ninth voting bird raco (if the season was flown on Saturday from National Park to Onehunga, an airline distance of 100 miles, which the winner flew in -lh fiflm, averaging miles an hour. The placing were:—Redwood Loft's Redwood Sunset, !>;Vsyds por inin., 1; Wal-. lace and Son's Jumbo, 052.0yd5, 2; W. Sargent's Granite Star. 052..1yd5, 3; \V. Gallagher's Big Rene, 052.2yd5, 4. Mount Albert Club. —A raco from To Awamutu, a distance of 86 miles, resulted as follows: —C. Walker's b c p c Surprise, 1174.8 yds -per min., 1; D. Ryan's blk c c Carl Rona, 1174.5yd5, 2j L. Hamilton's y p h Aloma, 1174.16yd#, 8.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23620, 2 April 1940, Page 11
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