HOMING PIGEONS
FLIGHT TO WELLINGTON WINNER'S EXCELLENT SPEED (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, Dec. 26. An interesting race from the Three Kings Islands to Wellington was flown last week by a large number of birds belonging to members of the Wellington Homing Pigeon Society. The birds were carried in the Awatea. which left Auckland last Tuesday night for Sydney, and were released when the ship was passing the Three Kings at 5.6 am (New Zealand time) on Wednesday, the weather then being fine and clear, with a moderate west-south-west forGGZG. The pigeons made a wonderful daylight flight, the first bird being timed in at Wellington at 7.25 p.m. on the same day. having flown 501 miles in; 14hr 19min. an average of slightly more than 35 miles per hour.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23692, 27 December 1938, Page 12
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129HOMING PIGEONS Otago Daily Times, Issue 23692, 27 December 1938, Page 12
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